See thetrouble anddisgrace main page, as well as theFAQ and thePoliticalGraveyard privacy policy, for important explanations anddisclaimers. in chronological order | |  Albert Lange (1801-1869) — of Terre Haute,VigoCounty, Ind.Born in Charlottenburg, Prussia (now part of Berlin,Germany),December16, 1801.Republican. He belonged to a secret society whichadvocated aconstitutional government for the German Empire; in 1824, theconspiracy was uncovered; he wasconvictedoftreasonandsentencedto fifteen years in inprison;pardonedin 1829, and left Germany for the United States; U.S. Consul inAmsterdam, 1849-50;Indianastate auditor, 1861-63;mayorof Terre Haute, Ind., 1863-67.Died in Terre Haute,VigoCounty, Ind.,July 25,1869 (age67 years, 221days).Interment atWoodlawnCemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.  | Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) — also known asEugene V. Debs — of Terre Haute,VigoCounty, Ind.Born in Terre Haute,VigoCounty, Ind.,November5, 1855.Socialist.Locomotivefireman on the Terre Haute and IndianapolisRailroad;secretary-treasurerof the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1880-93; member ofIndianastate house of representatives, 1885;founder in1893 andpresident(1893-97) of the American Railway Union;arrestedduring astrike in 1894 andchargedwithconspiracyto commit murder; the charges were dropped, but he wasjailedfor six months forcontemptof court; became a Socialist while incarcerated; candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1900 (Social Democratic), 1904 (Socialist),1908 (Socialist), 1912 (Socialist), 1920 (Socialist); in 1905, was afounderof the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies"), which hoped toorganize all workers in "One Big Union";convictedunder theSeditionand Espionage Act for ananti-war speech he made in 1918,andsentencedto ten years in federalprison;released in 1921.Member,Knightsof Pythias;American CivilLiberties Union.Died in LindlahrSanitarium,Elmhurst,DuPageCounty, Ill.,October20, 1926 (age70 years, 349days).Interment atHighlandLawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind. | | Hyman Costrell (b. 1890) — also known asJack Robbins — of New Haven,New HavenCounty, Conn.; New York.Born in Kurenitz, Russia (nowBelarus),October19, 1890.Communist.Arrestedin 1905 in Russia andjailedthree months fordemonstrating anddistributingcirculars against the Czarist government; naturalized U.S.citizen;plumber;candidate forU.S.Representative from New York 8th District, 1934.Jewish.Burial location unknown. | | Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968) — also known asUpton Sinclair — of California. Born inBaltimore,Md.,September20, 1878.Novelistand social crusader;author ofThe Jungle, about the meat-packing industry in Chicago;arrestedin 1914 forpicketing in front of the Standard Oil Building inNew York; Socialist candidate forU.S.Representative from California 10th District, 1920; Socialistcandidate forU.S.Senator from California, 1922; candidate forGovernor ofCalifornia, 1926 (Socialist), 1930 (Socialist), 1934(Democratic); Socialist candidate for Presidential Elector forCalifornia,1928;Socialist candidate for Presidential Elector for California,1932;received thePulitzerPrize for fiction in 1943 for thenovelDragon's Teeth.Member,UnitedWorld Federalists;Leaguefor Industrial Democracy;American CivilLiberties Union.Died in Bound Brook,SomersetCounty, N.J.,November25, 1968 (age90 years, 66days).Interment atRockCreek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. | | Arthur Elmer Reimer (1882-1969) — also known asArthur E. Reimer — of Massachusetts. Born in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,January15, 1882.Socialist.Tailor;lawyer;Socialist Labor candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1912, 1916; Socialist Labor candidate forGovernorof Massachusetts, 1913, 1914;jailedin Butte, Montana, 1916, for making aradical speech.Died in1969(ageabout87 years).Burial location unknown. | | Caleb Harrison — of Illinois. Socialist. Socialist Labor candidate forVicePresident of the United States, 1916;jailedin Homestead, Pennsylvania in 1916 for making aradical speech.Burial location unknown. | | Earl Russel Browder (1891-1973) — also known asEarl Browder — of Yonkers,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.Born in Wichita,SedgwickCounty, Kan.,May 20,1891.Communist. As a result of his opposition to U.S. participation inWorld War I, he wasconvictedin 1917 ofconspiracyagainst the draft laws andsentencedto sixteen months inprison;imprisonedagain in 1919;pardonedin 1933; candidate forU.S.Representative from New York, 1930 (6th District), 1932 (20thDistrict), 1940 (14th District); General Secretary of the CommunistParty of the U.S., 1934-44; candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1936, 1940;arrestedin 1939 for apassportviolation,convicted,andsentencedto four years inprison(sentence commuted after fourteen months); expelled from theCommunist Party, 1946.Died in Princeton,MercerCounty, N.J.,June 27,1973 (age82 years, 38days).Burial location unknown.  | Victor Luitpold Berger (1860-1929) — also known asVictor L. Berger — of Milwaukee,MilwaukeeCounty, Wis.Born in Nieder-Rehbach,Austria,February28, 1860.Socialist. Emigrated to the United States in 1878;schoolteacher;newspapereditor;U.S.Representative from Wisconsin 5th District, 1911-13, 1919,1923-29; defeated, 1904, 1920; candidate forU.S.Senator from Wisconsin, 1918; delegate to Socialist NationalConvention from Wisconsin, 1920; Chairman of Socialist Party, 1927-29.Jewishancestry. Member,InternationalTypographical Union.He andEugeneV. Debs founded the Socialist Party. Heopposed U.S.entry into World War I; in Chicago in 1918, he wastriedandconvictedunder theEspionageAct, andsentencedto twenty years inprison;elected to Congress anyway, he wasdenied aseat in 1919-21 to to allegeddisloyalty.In 1921, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed his conviction; the casesagainst him were withdrawn; he resumed his seat in Congress in 1923.Injured in astreetcaraccident, and subsequently died, in Milwaukee,MilwaukeeCounty, Wis.,August7, 1929 (age69 years, 160days).Interment atForestHome Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis. | | John Louis Engdahl (1884-1932) — also known asJ. Louis Engdahl — of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.; Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Minneapolis,HennepinCounty, Minn.,November11, 1884.Telegraphoperator;newspaperreporter; later,writer andeditorfor Socialist and Communist publications;indictedin Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep.VictorL. Berger, and three others, for makingspeeches thatencourageddisloyaltyand obstructedmilitaryrecruitment;triedandconvicted;sentencedto twenty years inprison;the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate forU.S.Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1918; delegate toSocialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate forU.S.Senator from Illinois, 1924 (Workers), 1926 (Workers Communist);Communist candidate forLieutenantGovernor of New York, 1930; Communist candidate forU.S.Representative from New York 7th District, 1931.Swedishancestry.Died, ofpneumonia,in Moscow,Russia,November21, 1932 (age48 years, 10days).Cremated. | | William Bross Lloyd (1875-1946) — also known asWilliam B. Lloyd;"The MillionaireSocialist" —of Winnetka,CookCounty, Ill.Born in Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.,February27, 1875.Socialist. Candidate forU.S.Senator from Illinois, 1918;arrestedin downtown Chicago, 1918, for refusing to remove ared flagfrom his limo; co-founder of Communist Labor Party, 1919;indictedforsedition,1920; represented attrial byClarenceDarrow;convicted,sentencedto 1-5 years inprison;his sentence was commuted in 1922.Died, ofcancer,in the Ritz-CarltonHotel,Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,June 30,1946 (age71 years, 123days).Cremated;ashes scattered in North Atlantic Ocean.| |  Relatives: Sonof Henry Demarest Lloyd and Jessie (Bross) Lloyd; married to LolaMaverick and Madge Bird; grandson ofWilliamBross. |
| | William F. Kruse (1894-1952) — also known asBill Kruse — of Illinois. Born in Hoboken,HudsonCounty, N.J.,1894.Bookkeeper;indictedin Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep.VictorL. Berger, and three others, for makingspeeches thatencourageddisloyaltyand obstructedmilitaryrecruitment;triedandconvicted;sentencedto twenty years inprison;the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate forU.S.Representative from Illinois 6th District, 1918, 1920; delegateto Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; Socialistcandidate forsecretaryof state of Illinois, 1921; Workers candidate forGovernor ofIllinois, 1928.GermanandDanishancestry.Died in1952(ageabout58 years).Burial location unknown. | | Irwin St. John Tucker — of Illinois. Socialist.Lecturer;indictedin Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep.VictorL. Berger, and three others, for makingspeeches thatencourageddisloyaltyand obstructedmilitaryrecruitment;triedandconvicted;sentencedto twenty years inprison;the conviction was later overturned; candidate forU.S.Representative from Illinois 10th District, 1918; delegate toSocialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920.Burial location unknown. | | Adolph Germer (1881-1966) — of Belleville,St. ClairCounty, Ill.; Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Wehlau, East Prussia (now Znamensk,KaliningradOblast),January15, 1881.Socialist.Miner;unionofficial in various capacities for the United Mine Workers ofAmerica, 1906-16; member of Socialist National Committee fromIllinois, 1911; candidate forIllinoisstate house of representatives, 1912; candidate forU.S.Senator from Illinois, 1914; National Executive Secretary,Socialist Party of America, 1916-19;indictedin Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep.VictorL. Berger, and three others, for makingspeeches thatencourageddisloyaltyand obstructedmilitaryrecruitment;triedandconvicted;sentencedto twenty years inprison;the conviction was later overturned; candidate forNew Yorkstate assembly from New York County 16th District, 1921.Member,UnitedMine Workers.Died in Rockford,WinnebagoCounty, Ill., May,1966(age85years, 0 days).Burial location unknown. | | Maurice Sugar (1891-1974) — of Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.Born in Brimley,ChippewaCounty, Mich.,August8, 1891.Lawyer;Socialist candidate forcircuitjudge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1917, 1919; Socialist candidateforjustice ofMichigan state supreme court, 1917; candidate forU.S.Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1918 (Socialist),1936 (Farmer-Labor);convictedin 1918 forresisting the draft, sentenced to a year inprison,anddisbarred;readmitted to the Bar in 1923;pardonedin 1933; general counsel to the United Automobile Workers, 1937-46;Progressive candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan,1948.JewishandLithuanianancestry. Member,NationalLawyers Guild.Died inCheboyganCounty, Mich.,February15, 1974 (age82 years, 191days).Burial location unknown. | | James B. Furber (c.1868-1930) — of Rahway,UnionCounty, N.J.; Linden,UnionCounty, N.J.Born in Allegan,AlleganCounty, Mich., about 1868.Traveling salesman for National Cash Register Company;newspaperpublisher;real estatedeveloper;lawyer;mayor ofRahway, N.J., 1906, 1922-24; resigned 1906;chargedwithassaultin connection with his participation in aSocialist rally inRahway, N.J., May 31, 1919, which was ended by spraying the speakerand audience with a fire hose; Socialist candidate forU.S.Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1920; Progressivecandidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey,1924;elected (Democratic)mayor ofLinden, N.J. 1930, but died before taking office.Suffered aparalyticstroke, whileaddressinga meeting of the Parent Democratic Club, and died soon after inSt. ElizabethHospital,Elizabeth,UnionCounty, N.J.,November12, 1930 (ageabout 62years).Burial location unknown. | | Frederick J. Harwood — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.; Newark,EssexCounty, N.J.Socialist. Candidate forNew Yorkstate assembly from New York County 21st District, 1916; StateSecretary, New Jersey Socialist Party, 1919; whenattempting tospeak to aSocialist rally in Rahway, N.J., May 31, 1919,he was sprayed with a fire hose by MayorDavidH. Trembley;chargedwithopposingand obstructing a police officer, andfined$50; candidate forU.S.Representative from New York 24th District, 1938.Burial location unknown. | | David H. Trembley (b. 1858) — of Rahway,UnionCounty, N.J.Born in New Jersey,1858.Carriagepainter;mayor ofRahway, N.J., 1918-22; on May 31, 1919, he prevented a Socialistorator,FrederickHarwood, from speaking, by spraying him and his audience with afire hose; subsequentlyarrestedandchargedwithassaultandinciting to riot; retaliated by arresting Justice of thePeace Gustav Theimer, who had indicted him, and arraigned him on acharge of improper procedure.FrenchHuguenot ancestry.Burial location unknown. | | Charlotte Anita Whitney (c.1868-1955) — also known asAnita Whitney — of California. Born about 1868. Communist.Socialworker; in 1919, she gave aradical speech in Oakland,California; as a result, she wasarrested,tried,andfoundguilty of violating the state'ssyndicalismlaw;pardonedby GovernorC. C.Young.; candidate forU.S.Senator from California, 1928, 1940 (Communist).Female.Died inSanFrancisco, Calif.,February4, 1955 (ageabout 87years).Burial location unknown. | | G. August Gerber — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Socialist.Arrestedfor makingseditiousutterances on March 26, 1920, in Philadelphia, when police brokeup aprotest meeting, andchargedwithincitingto riot; released when the charges were dropped the next day;candidate forNew Yorkstate assembly from New York County 18th District, 1921, 1922;candidate forU.S.Representative from New York, 1930 (19th District), 1932(at-large).Burial location unknown. | | Mary Winsor (b. 1873) — of Lower Merion Township,MontgomeryCounty, Pa.Born in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,March28, 1873.Socialist. Woman suffrage activist; participant in the first U.S.birth control conference, New York City, November 1921; on November13, police arrived to forcibly shut down the event, and she wasarrested,along with Margaret Sanger, forattempting to speak;chargedwith disorderly conduct, but released soon after; candidate forPennsylvaniasecretary of internal affairs, 1922; candidate forLieutenantGovernor of Pennsylvania, 1930; candidate forU.S.Representative from Pennsylvania 17th District, 1932.Female.Member,Women'sInternational League for Peace and Freedom;American CivilLiberties Union.Burial location unknown.  | John C. Butterworth (1870-1952) — of Paterson,PassaicCounty, N.J.Born in Macclesfield, Cheshire,England,1870.Socialist. Naturalized U.S. citizen;silkweaver; Socialist Labor candidate forGovernor ofNew Jersey, 1907, 1910, 1913, 1916, 1919, 1925, 1928, 1931, 1937,1940, 1943, 1949; on October 6, 1924, during a strike at the silkmills in Paterson, N.J., while the city was under martial law, he andother strikers and supporters werearrestedandconvictedofunlawful assembly; the convictions were later overturned bythe New Jersey Supreme Court; Socialist Labor candidate forU.S.Senator from New Jersey, 1924, 1932, 1934, 1938, 1942, 1944,1946; Socialist Labor candidate for Presidential Elector for NewJersey,1940;Socialist Labor candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey,1948;Socialist Labor candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey,1952.Englishancestry. Member,Freemasons;IndustrialWorkers of the World.Died in Paterson,PassaicCounty, N.J.,October17, 1952 (ageabout 82years).Burial location unknown.| | Image source:Paterson (N.J.) News, October 18, 1952 |
| | Max Schachtman (1904-1972) — of Bronx,BronxCounty, N.Y.; Floral Park,NassauCounty, Long Island, N.Y.Born in Warsaw,Poland,September10, 1904.Naturalized U.S. citizen;arrestedduring ademonstration on Wall Street in New York City, July3, 1928, but charges against him were dismissed; became an opensupporter of Leon Trotsky's opposition to Stalin about 1928, and wasexpelled from the Communist Party; became a major Trotskyist leaderand theoretician, and one of the founders of the Socialist WorkersParty; editor ofThe Militantnewspaper;Workers candidate forU.S.Representative from New York, 1940 (23rd District), 1946 (15thDistrict); Workers candidate formayorof New York City, N.Y., 1941, 1945; broke with Trotskyism in1948, and became more conservative in later life.Jewishancestry. Member,Leaguefor Industrial Democracy.Died, in Long Island JewishHospital,New Hyde Park,NassauCounty, Long Island, N.Y.,November4, 1972 (age68 years, 55days).Burial location unknown. | | Philip Aaron Raymond (1899-1983) — also known asPhilip Raymond — of Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.Born in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,February4, 1899.Communist.Labororganizer; in January, 1930, he wasarrestedin Pontiac, Mich., andchargedwithleading a demonstration; againarrestedin April, 1934, in Dearborn, Mich., when he was seen talking withstrikers picketing an auto plant; candidate formayorof Detroit, Mich., 1930; Workers candidate forU.S.Representative from Michigan 6th District, 1930; candidate forU.S.Senator from Michigan, 1934; candidate forGovernor ofMichigan, 1936, 1940; Communist candidate for PresidentialElector for Michigan,1940;candidate forMichiganstate attorney general, 1946.Died inLos AngelesCounty, Calif.,March21, 1983 (age84 years, 45days).Burial location unknown. | | William Zebulon Foster (1881-1961) — also known asWilliam Z. Foster;William EdwardFoster —of Bronx,BronxCounty, N.Y.Born in Taunton,BristolCounty, Mass.,February25, 1881.Communist.Labororganizer; helped lead steelworkers strike in 1919; candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1924, 1928, 1932; candidate forGovernor ofNew York, 1930;arrestedafter ademonstration in 1930, andjailedfor six months;indictedon July 20, 1948 under theSmithAct, andchargedwith conspiring toadvocatethe overthrow of the government; never tried due to illness.Irishancestry.Died, in asanatoriumat Moscow,Russia,September1, 1961 (age80 years, 188days).Cremated;ashes interred atKremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow, Russia; cenotaph atForestHome Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill. | | Sammie A. Abbott (1908-1990) — of New York; Takoma Park,MontgomeryCounty, Md.BornApril25, 1908.Communist. Activist andlabororganizer;arrestedabout 50 times in connection withdemonstrations and strikes;candidate forU.S.Representative from New York 37th District, 1934;mayorof Takoma Park, Md., 1980-85; defeated, 1985.DiedDecember15, 1990 (age82 years, 234days).Burial location unknown.| | Relatives:Married1938 to RuthGracie Yalsic. |
| | George Edward Powers (b. 1892) — also known asGeorge E. Powers — of Watertown,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.; Astoria, Queens,QueensCounty, N.Y.; Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.Born in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,February15, 1892.Sheet metalworker; candidate forboroughpresident of Queens, New York, 1929 (Workers), 1933 (Communist);Workers candidate forU.S.Senator from Michigan, 1930; in April 1932, he wasarrestedat City Hall Park, during ademonstration which wascharacaterized as "riot";convictedof unlawful assembly, but the sentence was suspended; also in 1932,he was publiclyaccusedof taking part in an allegedCommunistconspiracy to cause bank failures in Chicago byspreadingrumors (in a "whispering campaign" of "anti-bank propaganda"); hedenied this; Communist candidate forchiefjudge of New York Court of Appeals, 1932;vice-president,International Workers Order; Communist candidate forJustice ofNew York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1934; Communist candidateforNew Yorkstate assembly from New York County 10th District, 1936;following the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939, he resigned from theCommunist Party, took part in anti-Communist organizations; atEarlBrowder's trial for passport fraud in 1940, he testified for theprosecution; Liberal candidate forNew Yorkstate senate 7th District, 1948, 1950.Burial location unknown.| | Relatives: Sonof George E. Powers and Sarah Powers. |
| | Ernest A. Moross (c.1874-1949) — of Mosherville,HillsdaleCounty, Mich.Born about 1874. Manager for Indianapolis Speedway, and for many early 20th centuryrace cardrivers; retired from automobile racing in 1916; candidate inRepublican primary forMichiganstate house of representatives from Hillsdale County, 1930;Communist candidate forMichiganstate senate 10th District, 1932; in 1933, he refused to renewhis car'slicenseplates as aprotest against the cost; when his car wasseized, he and his wifelocked the doors andremainedinside it for a month; finally police broke into the car andarrestedthem;convictedofresistingarrest, andsentencedto 30 days injail.Died in Long Beach,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,April 4,1949 (ageabout 75years).Burial location unknown.  | Williana Jones Burroughs (1882-1945) — also known asWilliana J. Burroughs;Williana Jones;Mary Adams —of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.; Moscow,Russia.Born inPetersburg,Va.,December26, 1882.Communist.Schoolteacher; joined the Communist party in 1926; used the pseudonym"Mary Adams"; in 1933, she led ademonstration to the New YorkCity Board of Education, and as a result, she wasfiredfrom her teaching job; candidate forLieutenantGovernor of New York, 1934; announcer and editor for theEnglish-language broadcasts ofRadioMoscow, 1937-45.Africanancestry.Died, from aheartailment, in the Staten Island AreaHospital,Staten Island,RichmondCounty, N.Y.,December24, 1945 (age62 years, 363days).Burial location unknown.| | Relatives:Married1909 toCharles Burroughs. | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle | | | | Image source: The Daily Worker, October1933 |
 | Corliss Lamont (1902-1995) — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Englewood,BergenCounty, N.J.,March28, 1902.Socialist.Author;lecturer;arrestedon June 27, 1934, whilepicketing in support of alaborunion at a furniture plant in Jersey City, N.J.; chairman,National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1943-47; thisorganization and its leaders wereinvestigatedforsubversionby the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities;chargedin 1946 withcontemptof Congress for his refusal to provide records demanded by thecommittee; in 1951, the U.S. State Departmentdenied apassport to him, based on his membership in what were deemed "Communist-frontorganizations"; on August 17, 1954, the U.S. Senatecitedhim withcontemptof Congress for refusing to testify before Sen.JosephR. McCarthy's subcommittee; subsequentlyindicted;pleaded not guilty; the indictment was dismissed in 1955; the Courtof Appeals upheld the dismissal in 1956; candidate forU.S.Senator from New York, 1952 (American Labor), 1958 (IndependentSocialist).Member,American CivilLiberties Union;NAACP;PhiBeta Kappa;AmericanAcademy of Political and Social Science.Died, ofheartfailure, in Ossining,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.,April26, 1995 (age93 years, 29days).Interment atBrooksideCemetery, Englewood, N.J. |  | Sufi Abdul Hamid (1903-1938) — also known asAbdul Hamid;Eugene Brown;"TheBlack Hitler";"The Harlem Hitler";"Bishop Amiru-Al-Mu-Minim Sufi AbdulHamid" —of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Lowell,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,January6, 1903.Self-styledcleric;laborleader; claimed to be from Egypt or Sudan; wore a turban and agreen velvet cloak with gold braid; led picketing of stores in Harlemwhose proprietors refused to hire African-American employees;conductedstreet rallies in Harlem where hedenouncedJews; said he was "the only one fit to carry on the war againstthe Jews"; Americo-Spanish candidate forNew Yorkstate assembly from New York County 17th District, 1933;arrestedin October 1934;tried andfound guilty on misdemeanor charges ofmaking a publicspeech without a permit, and selling books without a license, andsentencedto ten days injail;latersuspectedof inciting the 1935 riot in Harlem, which led toinjunctionsagainst his activities; in January 1938, his estranged wife,Stephanie St. Clair, ambushed him outside his house, andshotat him five times, but he was not seriously hurt; founded theBuddhist Universal Holy Temple of Tranquility.BuddhistorMuslim.Africanancestry.Killed, along with his pilot, when his Cessna J-5 airplane ran out offuel andcrashednear Wantagh,NassauCounty, Long Island, N.Y.,July 30,1938 (age35 years, 205days).Burial location unknown. | | | George Breitman (1916-1986) — also known asAlbert Parker;Philip Blake;ChesterHofla;Anthony Massini;John F. Petrone;G.Sloane —of Newark,EssexCounty, N.J.; Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.; Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Newark,EssexCounty, N.J.,February28, 1916.Socialist. Became a socialist agitator in Newark, N.J., 1935;arrestedabout 1936 andchargedwithinciting riots;jailedfor a week; founding member of the Socialist Workers Party, 1937;member of its National Committee, 1939-81; Socialist Workerscandidate forU.S.Senator from New Jersey, 1940, 1942, 1946, 1948, 1954;editor-in-chief of the weeklynewspaper,The Militant, 1941-43, 1946-54;writerunder several different pen names; Socialist Workers candidate forPresidential Elector for New Jersey,1952;Socialist Workers candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan,1960;Socialist Workers candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan,1964.Member,InternationalTypographical Union.Expelled from the Socialist Workers Party for "disloyalty," 1984. Died, following aheartattack, in Beekman DowntownHospital,Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,April19, 1986 (age70 years, 50days).Burial location unknown.| | Relatives: Sonof Benjamin Breitman and Pauline (Trattler) Breitman; married1940 toDorothea Katz. | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle |
| | George Thomas Bardwell (1901-1947) — also known asGeorge Bardwell;Thomas GeorgeBardwell —ofDenver,Colo.Born in Lake City,HinsdaleCounty, Colo.,October18, 1901.Communist. Candidate forU.S.Representative from Colorado 1st District, 1934;arrestedandprosecutedin the 1930s in connection with astrike; acquitted.Died in ahospital,Denver,Colo.,January19, 1947 (age45 years, 93days).Interment atMt.Olivet Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Colo.| | Relatives: Sonof George D. Bardwell and Hannah J. (Cunningham) Bardwell; married,April4, 1923, to Avelina Rella. |
| | Ernest Lee Jahncke (1877-1960) — also known as"Commodore" — of New Orleans,OrleansParish, La.Born in New Orleans,OrleansParish, La.,October13, 1877.Republican.Engineer;president, JahnckeDryDocks, New Orleans; U.S. assistant secretary of the Navy,1929-33; named a Commodore in 1931, and a Rear Admiral in the navalreserve in 1955; delegate to Republican National Convention fromLouisiana,1932,1936(alternate).Episcopalian.Germanancestry. Member,SigmaAlpha Epsilon.Expelledfrom the International Olympic Committee in July 1936 after taking astrong stand against the Nazi-organized Berlin Games.Died in Pass Christian,HarrisonCounty, Miss.,November16, 1960 (age83 years, 34days).Entombed atMetairieCemetery, New Orleans, La. | | Joseph Ellsberry McWilliams (1904-1996) — also known asJoe McWilliams — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Hitchcock,BlaineCounty, Okla.,1904.Gavestreet-corner speeches in New York City, in which hedenouncedJews andpraisedAdolf Hitler;arrestedin 1940 when one of his speeches caused a riot;chargedwithseditionin 1944, as part of an allegedNaziconspiracy;triedalong with many others, but after seven months, a mistrial wasdeclared; candidate in Republican primary forU.S.Representative from New York 18th District, 1940.Died in1996(ageabout92 years).Burial location unknown. | | Nathan Pressman (1912-1993) — of Ellenville,UlsterCounty, N.Y.Born in Brooklyn,KingsCounty, N.Y.,June 24,1912.Socialist. Longtime Socialist Labor Party activist;jailedbriefly during World War II fordraft resistance, butsubsequently accepted induction into the U.S. Army; several timecandidate for mayor of Ellenville, N.Y.; Socialist Labor candidatefor Presidential Elector for New York,1972;expelled from Socialist Labor Party, 1984.Died, in Ellenville CommunityHospital,Ellenville,UlsterCounty, N.Y.,September25, 1993 (age81 years, 93days).Interment atWorkmen'sCircle Cemetery, Wawarsing town, Ulster County, N.Y. | | Robert Morss Lovett (1870-1956) — of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.; Lake Zurich,LakeCounty, Ill.Born in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,December25, 1870.Progressive.Universityprofessor;novelist;playwright;Progressive candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois,1924;secretaryof the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1939-43;Governor ofU.S. Virgin Islands, 1940-41;removed fromoffice as Secretary of the Virgin Islands, andbarredfrom federal employment, by action of the U.S. Congress in 1943, overhis ties toleft-wing and purportedlyCommunistindividuals and groups; the action was later struck down by the U.S.Supreme Court as an unconstitutional bill of attainder, and hereceived about $2,000 in salary owed to him.Atheist.Died, in St. Joseph'sHospital,Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.,February8, 1956 (age85 years, 45days).Interment atGracelandCemetery, Chicago, Ill. | | Glen Hearst Taylor (1904-1984) — also known asGlen H. Taylor — of Pocatello,BannockCounty, Idaho.Born in Portland,MultnomahCounty, Ore.,April12, 1904.Country-westernsinger; candidate forU.S.Representative from Idaho, 1938;U.S.Senator from Idaho, 1945-51; defeated, 1940 (Democratic), 1942(Democratic), 1956 (Independent);arrestedon May 1, 1948, in Birmingham, Alabama, forattempting to usea door reserved for Negroes, rather than the whites-only door;convictedin 1949 of disorderly conduct; Progressive candidate forVicePresident of the United States, 1948.Member,UnitedWorld Federalists.DiedApril28, 1984 (age80 years, 16days).Interment atSkylawnMemorial Park, San Mateo, Calif.  | Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) — also known asAnne Braden;Anne McCarty — of Louisville,JeffersonCounty, Ky.Born in Louisville,JeffersonCounty, Ky.,July 28,1924.Newspaperreporter;labororganizer; civil rights activist starting in the 1940s; in May1954, tofight segregation, she and her husband bought a housein a white neighborhood on behalf of a Black family; this sparkedfurious and violent opposition and the bombing of the house; she andothers werechargedwithsedition;her husband was the first to be convicted, but then, in 1956, allstate sedition laws were struck down; Communist candidate forPresidential Elector for Kentucky,1972.Female.Episcopalian.Died in Louisville,JeffersonCounty, Ky.,March 6,2006 (age81 years, 221days).Interment atEminenceCemetery, Eminence, Ky. | | | Clennon Washington King Jr. (c.1921-2000) — also known asClennon King;"The Black DonQuixote" —of Miami,Miami-DadeCounty, Fla.Born about 1921.Minister;Independent Afro-American candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1960; candidate formayor ofMiami, Fla., 1996.Africanancestry.Attempted to enroll in the then-all-white University ofMississippi in 1958, and was sent to the state'sinsaneasylum; attempted to join and integrateJimmyCarter's all-white Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., on the eve ofthe 1976 presidential election.Jailedon numerous occasions for his flamboyant tactics.Died, ofprostatecancer, in Miami,Miami-DadeCounty, Fla.,February12, 2000 (ageabout 79years).Interment atRiversideCemetery, Albany, Ga. | | Robert Earl Filner (b. 1942) — also known asBob Filner — of San Diego,San DiegoCounty, Calif.Born in Pittsburgh,AlleghenyCounty, Pa.,September4, 1942.Democrat. In June 1961, as a Freedom Rider at the bus station inJackson, Mississippi, he wasarrestedfordisturbing the peace andinciting a riot; jailedfor two months;universityprofessor;U.S.Representative from California, 1993-2012 (50th District1993-2003, 51st District 2003-12); delegate to Democratic NationalConvention from California,1996,2000,2004,2008;mayorof San Diego, Calif., 2012-13; resigned 2013; in July and August2013, numerous women came forward toaccusehim ofsexualharassment; a campaign started torecallhim from office as mayor; a few days later, heresigned;in October 2013, hepleadedguilty tochargesof false imprisonment and battery of three women; he wassentencedto a three-monthhousearrest.Jewish. Member,UrbanLeague;NavyLeague;SierraClub.Still living as of 2016. | | Byron Mark Baer (1929-2007) — also known asByron M. Baer — of Englewood,BergenCounty, N.J.BornOctober8, 1929.Democrat. Member ofNewJersey state house of assembly, 1972-93 (District 13-B 1972-73,37th District 1974-93); member ofNewJersey state senate 37th District, 1994-2005; resigned 2005;delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey,1996,2000.While working as aFreedom Rider, registering voters inMississippi in 1961, wasarrestedandjailedfor 45 days.Died, from complications ofcongestiveheart failure, in anassistedliving facility, Englewood,BergenCounty, N.J.,June 24,2007 (age77 years, 259days).Cremated. | | George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-1967) — of Arlington,ArlingtonCounty, Va.Born in Bloomington,McLeanCounty, Ill.,March 9,1918.Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in the U.S. Navyduring the Korean conflict; founder, in 1959, of the NationalCommittee to Free America fromJewishDomination (later known as the AmericanNaziParty);arrestedat variousdemonstrations during the 1960s; American Nazicandidate forGovernor ofVirginia, 1965.Shotandkilled bya sniper, later identified as John Patler, whiledriving hiscar in the parking lot of Dominion HillsShoppingCenter, Arlington,ArlingtonCounty, Va.,August25, 1967 (age49 years, 169days); Patler was convicted of the murder and sentenced to 20years in prison. Rockwell's funeral procession was not allowed intoCulpeper National Cemetery because of Nazi emblems worn by hissupporters.Cremated.  | Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) — also known asFannie Lou Townsend — Born inMontgomeryCounty, Miss.,October6, 1917.Civil rights and voting rights activist; founder of MississippiFreedom Democratic Party; in September 1962, in retaliation for herattempt to vote, she wasshotat in a drive-by shooting; in 1963, along with othercivilrights activists en route to a conference, she wasarrested,and suffered analmostfatal beating by police; candidate forU.S.Senator from Mississippi, 1964; candidate forMississippistate senate, 1971.Female.Baptist.Africanancestry.Inducted,NationalWomen's Hall of Fame, 1995.Died in Mound Bayou,BolivarCounty, Miss.,March14, 1977 (age59 years, 159days).Interment atFannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden, Ruleville, Miss.| | Relatives:Daughter of James Lee Townsend and Ella Townsend; married1945 to PerryHamer. | | | | Epitaph: "I am sick and tired of beingsick and tired." | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial | | | | Image source: Library ofCongress |
| | Hosea Lorenzo Williams (1926-2000) — also known asHosea Williams — of Savannah,ChathamCounty, Ga.; Atlanta,FultonCounty, Ga.; Decatur,DeKalbCounty, Ga.Born in Attapulgus,DecaturCounty, Ga.,January5, 1926.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;walkedwith a cane due to wartime injury;ordainedminister; candidate forU.S.Senator from Georgia, 1972; member ofGeorgiastate house of representatives 54th District, 1975-85; candidateformayorof Atlanta, Ga., 1989.Africanancestry. Member,NAACP;PhiBeta Sigma;Elks;Freemasons;Veterans ofForeign Wars;DisabledAmerican Veterans;AmericanLegion.Civil rights leader; active insit-ins andprotestmarches in Savannah and elsewhere;arrestedat least 135 times. As Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "field general"in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led the 1965Selma-to-Montgomery march which helped galvanize support for Blackvoting rights. In 1968, he was present at the Lorraine Motel inMemphis, Tenn., when King was assassinated.Convictedin 1981 ofleavingthe scene of an accident, andjailedfor six months.Died, ofcancer,at PiedmontHospital,Atlanta,FultonCounty, Ga.,November16, 2000 (age74 years, 316days).Entombed atLincolnCemetery, Atlanta, Ga. | | Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923-2007) — also known asNorman Mailer — of Brooklyn,KingsCounty, N.Y.Born in Long Branch,MonmouthCounty, N.J.,January31, 1923.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;novelist,essayist,magazineeditor,Hollywoodscreenwriter,director,andactor;among the founders of theVillage Voicenewspapernewspaperin New York City; in November, 1960, whiledrunkat a party, hestabbedand wounded his wife, Adele; he wasarrestedand held for psychiatric evaluation, and eventuallypleadedguilty tothird-degreeassault;arrestedandjailedin 1967 in connection with anantiwar protest; candidate formayorof New York City, N.Y., 1969.Jewishancestry.Won thePulitzerPrize for nonfiction in 1969 and for fiction in 1980.Died, fromacute renalfailure, in Mount SinaiHospital,Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,November10, 2007 (age84 years, 283days).Interment atProvincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, Mass. | | Mortimer Thomas Furay (1910-1972) — also known asMort Furay — of Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.Born in Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.,July 23,1910.Democrat.President,Local 705, Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union;vice-president,AFL-CIO Union Label Trade Department; candidate forMichiganstate house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,1944; candidate in primary formayorof Detroit, Mich., 1949; in 1967, at an intersection in HighlandPark, Mich., he witnessed a woman being beaten by her husband, andsummoned police; when the police officers decided not to arrest theman, heprotested, and wasarrestedforinterferingwith police; he pleaded not guilty, and a trial date was set, butapparently the case was dropped.Died, probably from aheartattack, in Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.,March12, 1972 (age61 years, 233days);body wasdonated to Wayne State University Medical School.| | Relatives: Sonof Mortimer John Furay and Florence Bell (Kratz) Furay; married1932 toCorinne Kelly. | | | | See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial |
| | Brian J. Coyle (1944-1991) — of Moorhead,ClayCounty, Minn.; Minneapolis,HennepinCounty, Minn.Born in Great Falls,CascadeCounty, Mont.,June 25,1944.Collegeinstructor; in 1968, he wasindictedandtriedfor his refusal to comply with themilitary draft, but wasacquitted as a conscientious objector; Independent candidate forU.S.Senator from Minnesota, 1978; candidate formayorof Minneapolis, Minn., 1979; president, Minneapolis city council.Gay. One of Minnesota's first openly-gay politicians. Died, fromAIDS-relatedcomplications,August23, 1991 (age47 years, 59days).Burial location unknown. | | Joseph Echols Lowery (b. 1921) — also known asJoseph E. Lowery — of Atlanta,FultonCounty, Ga.Born in Huntsville,MadisonCounty, Ala.,October6, 1921.Democrat.Pastor;leader in the civil rights movement; co-founder of the SouthernChristian Leadership Conference; escaped death in 1963 when his hotelroom in Birmingham, Ala., wasbombed,and in 1979 when Klansmen in Decatur, Ala.,openedfire on Lowery and other protesters;arrestedwhiledemonstrating in support of a garbage workers' strike inAtlanta, 1968;arrestedduringprotests in Cullman, Ala., 1978;arrestedwhileprotesting apartheid at the South AfricanEmbassyin Washington, D.C., 1984;offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,1988 ; delivered eulogies at the funerals of Rosa Parks andCorettaScott King; delegate to Democratic National Convention fromGeorgia,2008.Methodist.Africanancestry.Still living as of 2014. | | Cleve Andrew Pulley (b. 1951) — also known asAndrew Pulley;Cleve AndrewPulley —of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.; Michigan; Des Moines,PolkCounty, Iowa.Born in Sidon,LefloreCounty, Miss.,May 5,1951.Socialist.Railroadswitchman; private in U.S. Army, 1968-69; one of eight GIs atFort Jackson (South Carolina) who organized opposition to the VietnamWar;courtmartialed forinciting to riot anddisobedience;charges later dropped;dishonorablydischarged;steelworker;Socialist Workers candidate forVicePresident of the United States, 1972; Socialist Workers candidateforU.S.Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1976; SocialistWorkers candidate formayorof Chicago, Ill., 1979; Socialist Workers candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1980; Socialist Workers candidate forU.S.Representative from Michigan, 1984 (1st District), 1986 (1stDistrict), 1990 (13th District); Socialist Workers candidate forU.S.Senator from Iowa, 1992; Socialist Workers candidate forPresidential Elector for Iowa,2004(on behalf ofJamesHarris andMargaretTrowe).Africanancestry. Member,UnitedSteelworkers of America.Still living as of 2004. | | Bobby Seale (b. 1936) — also known asRobert George Seale — of Oakland,AlamedaCounty, Calif.Born in Dallas,DallasCounty, Tex.,October22, 1936.Joined U.S. Air Force in 1955;chargedwithinsubordinationand beingAWOL,anddishonorablydischarged;sheet metalworker; co-founder, with Huey Newton, of the Black Panther Party,1966; one of eight defendantschargedin 1969 with crossing state lines toincite a riot at the 1968Democratic National Convention in Chicago; the judge ordered himbound andgagged during the trial, andsentencedhim to four years inprisonforcontemptof court; Peace and Freedom candidate forCaliforniastate assembly 17th District, 1968; in 1970, he waschargedin New Haven, Conn., withorderingthe murder of Alex Rackley, a Black Panther who had confessed tobeing a police informant; the jury was unable to reach a verdict, andthe charges were eventually dropped; candidate formayorof Oakland, Calif., 1973.Africanancestry.Still living as of 2014. | | Paul David Wellstone (1944-2002) — also known asPaul Wellstone;"SenatorWelfare" —of Minnesota. Born inWashington,D.C.,July 21,1944.Democrat.Collegeprofessor;arrestedduring aVietnam War protest at the federal building inMinneapolis, 1970;arrestedagain during aprotest of farm foreclosures at a bank inPaynesville, Minn., 1984; candidate forMinnesotastate auditor, 1982; member ofDemocraticNational Committee from Minnesota, 1984-91;U.S.Senator from Minnesota, 1991-2002; died in office 2002; delegateto Democratic National Convention from Minnesota,1996,2000.Jewish. Member,PhiBeta Kappa.Killed in aplanecrash, along with his wife and daughter, near Eveleth,St. LouisCounty, Minn.,October25, 2002 (age58 years, 96days).Interment atLakewoodCemetery, Minneapolis, Minn. | | Donald J. Lobsinger (1934-2018) — of Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.; St. Clair Shores,MacombCounty, Mich.Born in Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.,1934.Republican. Founder and leader of an anti-Communist group called"Breakthrough", an offshoot of the John Birch Society; candidate in primary formayorof Detroit, Mich., 1969, 1973;convictedofdisorderlyconduct, 1971; in January 1973, whileprotesting against apeace rally outside a Detroit church, he and others shoved, knockeddown, kicked and pummeled a Catholic priest; he waschargedwithassault,convictedafter a tumultuoustrial,andsentencedto 45 days injail;later, on appeal, a new trial was ordered, and he wasconvictedagain; Republican candidate forU.S.Representative from Michigan 10th District, 1994, 1996 (primary),1998 (primary).Catholic.Died in Romeo,MacombCounty, Mich.,November18, 2018 (ageabout 84years).Burial location unknown. | | John James Conyers Jr. (1929-2019) — also known asJohn Conyers, Jr. — of Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.Born in Highland Park,WayneCounty, Mich.,May 16,1929.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict;lawyer;U.S.Representative from Michigan, 1965-2017 (1st District 1965-93,14th District 1993-2013, 13th District 2013-17); delegate toDemocratic National Convention from Michigan,1968,1972,1976,1984,1988,1996,2000,2004,2008;arrestedduring ananti-apartheid protest outside the South AfricanEmbassy in Washington, 1984; candidate in primary formayorof Detroit, Mich., 1989, 1993; in 2017, it was reported that aformer member of Conyers' staff hadallegedthat he hadsexuallyharassed her, and had been paid a settlement of $27,000;subsequently, the House Ethics Committee started aninvestigationinto multiple such allegations; he subsequentlyresignedfrom Congress.Baptist.Africanancestry. Member,NAACP.Recipient of theSpingarnMedal, 2007.Died in Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.,October27, 2019 (age90 years, 164days).Entombed atDetroitMemorial Park East, Warren, Mich. | | Ronald Vernie Dellums (1935-2018) — also known asRonald V. Dellums — of Berkeley,AlamedaCounty, Calif.; Oakland,AlamedaCounty, Calif.Born in Oakland,AlamedaCounty, Calif.,November24, 1935.Democrat.Socialworker;U.S.Representative from California, 1971-98 (7th District 1971-75,8th District 1975-93, 9th District 1993-98);arrestedduring ananti-apartheid protest outside the South AfricanEmbassyin Washington, 1984; delegate to Democratic National Convention fromCalifornia,1988,1996,2008;mayorof Oakland, Calif., 2007-11.Protestant.Africanancestry. Member,AlphaPhi Alpha.Died inWashington,D.C.,July 30,2018 (age82 years, 248days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va. | | William Donlon Edwards (1915-2015) — also known asDon Edwards — of San Jose,SantaClara County, Calif.Born in San Jose,Santa ClaraCounty, Calif.,January6, 1915.Democrat.Lawyer;served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;U.S.Representative from California, 1963-95 (9th District 1963-75,10th District 1975-93, 16th District 1993-95); delegate to DemocraticNational Convention from California,1964,1968,1988;arrestedduring ananti-apartheid protest outside the South AfricanEmbassyin Washington, 1984.Unitarian.Member,Americansfor Democratic Action.Died in San Jose,Santa ClaraCounty, Calif.,October1, 2015 (age100 years,268 days).Burial location unknown. | | Charles Arthur Hayes (1918-1997) — also known asCharles A. Hayes — of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.Born in Cairo,AlexanderCounty, Ill.,February17, 1918.Democrat.U.S.Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1983-93; defeated inprimary, 1992;arrestedduring ananti-apartheid protest outside the South AfricanEmbassyin Washington, 1984.Africanancestry. Member,UnitedFood and Commercial Workers.Died, from complications oflungcancer, at South SuburbanHospital,Hazel Crest,CookCounty, Ill.,April 8,1997 (age79 years, 50days).Burial location unknown. | | Walter Edward Fauntroy (b. 1933) — also known asWalter E. Fauntroy — ofWashington,D.C.Born inWashington,D.C.,February6, 1933.Democrat.Baptistminister;Delegateto U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia, 1971-91;candidate for Democratic nomination for President,1972;delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia,1972,1980,1988(speaker);arrestedduring ananti-apartheid sit-in at the South AfricanEmbassyin Washington, 1984; candidate formayorof Washington, D.C., 1990.Baptist.Africanancestry. Member,KappaAlpha Psi.Chargedin federal court on March 22, 1995 with making false statements onfinancialdisclosure forms, including a claimed donation of almost $24,000to the New Bethel Baptist Church where he served as pastor, to makeit appear that he had complied with House rules limiting outsideincome, and that he hadfailedto disclose a June 1988 loan of $24,200.Pleadedguilty to one felony count, andsentencedtoprobation.Still living as of 2014. | | George William Crockett Jr. (1909-1997) — also known asGeorge W. Crockett, Jr. — of Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.Born in Jacksonville,DuvalCounty, Fla.,August10, 1909.Democrat. Recorder's court judge in Michigan, 1966-78;U.S.Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1980-91; delegate toDemocratic National Convention from Michigan,1984,1988;arrestedduring ananti-apartheid protest outside the South AfricanEmbassyin Washington, 1984.Baptist.Africanancestry. Member,KappaAlpha Psi;NationalLawyers Guild.Served four months in federalprisonforcontemptof court in 1950, following his defense of a Communist leader ontrial in New York for advocating the overthrow of the government.Among the founders of the nation'sfirstinterracial law firm.Ill withbonecancer in 1997, he suffered astrokeand died five days later, in Washington Home andHospice,Washington,D.C.,September7, 1997 (age88 years, 28days).Cremated. | | William H. Simons — also known asBill Simons — ofWashington,D.C.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;schoolteacher; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Districtof Columbia,1968,1980,1996,2000;president,Washington Teachers Union;vice-president,American Federation of Teachers;arrestedduring ananti-apartheid protest outside the South AfricanEmbassyin Washington, 1984; Democratic Presidential Elector for District ofColumbia,2000(voted forAlGore andJosephI. Lieberman).Africanancestry.Still living as of 2000. | | Mary Frances Berry (b. 1938) — Born in Nashville,DavidsonCounty, Tenn.,February17, 1938.Lawyer;writer;universityprofessor; member, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1978-2004;chair, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1993-99;arrestedduring ananti-apartheid sit-in at the South AfricanEmbassyin Washington, 1984.Female.Africanancestry.Still living as of 2014. | | Ezola Broussard Foster (b. 1938) — also known asEzola B. Foster;EzolaBroussard —of Los Angeles,LosAngeles County, Calif.; Huntington Beach,OrangeCounty, Calif.Born in Maurice,VermilionParish, La.,August9, 1938.Schoolteacher; Republican candidate forCaliforniastate assembly, 1984;arrestedwith others whileprotesting recognition of the gay Log CabinRepublican organization, at the California Republican stateconvention, 1987; Reform candidate forVicePresident of the United States, 2000; American Independentcandidate for Presidential Elector for California,2004(on behalf ofMichaelPeroutka andChuckBaldwin).Female.Catholic.Africanancestry. Member,JohnBirch Society.Still living as of 2018. | | John Quinn Brisben (1934-2012) — also known asJ. Quinn Brisben — of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.Born in Enid,GarfieldCounty, Okla.,September6, 1934.Socialist.Schoolteacher;poet;candidate forVicePresident of the United States, 1976; brieflyjailedin Florida as a result of his participation in a disability rightsdemonstration in Orlando, Fla., 1992; candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1992.Member,AmericanFederation of Teachers.Died in Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.,April17, 2012 (age77 years, 224days).Burial location unknown. | | David Nelson (b. 1962) — of Salt Lake City,Salt LakeCounty, Utah.Born, in ahospitalat Salt Lake City,Salt LakeCounty, Utah,April 7,1962.Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Utah,1996,2000.Gay. Member,American CivilLiberties Union;National RifleAssociation.Convictedon a misdemeanor act ofcivil disobedience, 1995 Recipient ofDemocratic National Committee's Lawrence O'Brien Achievement Award,1998.Still living as of 2004. | | Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (b. 1954) — also known asRobert F. Kennedy, Jr. — Born, in Georgetown UniversityHospital,Washington,D.C.,January17, 1954.Lawyer;in September 1983, he waschargedwithheroinpossession in Rapid City, S.D.;pleadedguilty, andsentencedto two yearsprobation;in May, 2001, whileprotesting at Camp Garcia Vieques, a U.S.Navy facility in Puerto Rico, he and others werearrestedfortrespassing;he wasconvictedandsentencedto 30 days inprison;Independent candidate forPresidentof the United States, 2024.Still living as of 2024.| | Relatives: SonofRobertFrancis Kennedy and Ethel (Skakel) Kennedy; brother ofKathleenKennedy Townsend andJosephPatrick Kennedy II; married1982 to EmilyBlack; married,April15, 1994, to Mary Kathleen Richardson; married2014 to CherylHines; nephew ofJosephPatrick Kennedy Jr.,JohnFitzgerald Kennedy, Eunice Mary Kennedy (who marriedRobertSargent Shriver Jr.),PatriciaKennedy Lawford,JeanKennedy Smith andEdwardMoore Kennedy; grandson ofJosephPatrick Kennedy, Sr.; great-grandson ofPatrickJoseph Kennedy (1858-1929) andJohnFrancis Fitzgerald; first cousin ofJohnFitzgerald Kennedy Jr.,MarkKennedy Shriver andPatrickJoseph Kennedy (born 1967). | | | | Political family:Kennedyfamily of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle |
| | Michael J. Badnarik (1954-2022) — of Austin,TravisCounty, Tex.Born in Hammond,LakeCounty, Ind.,August1, 1954.Libertarian.Softwareengineer;talkshow host; candidate forTexasstate house of representatives, 2000 (47th District), 2002 (48thDistrict);arrested,in St. Louis, Mo., on October 8, 2004, along with Green Partypresidential nomineeDavidCobb, whileprotesting their exclusion from presidentialdebates; candidate forPresidentof the United States, 2004; candidate forU.S.Representative from Texas 10th District, 2006.Slovakancestry.Died, fromheartfailure, in San Antonio,BexarCounty, Tex.,August11, 2022 (age68 years, 10days).Burial location unknown. | | David Keith Cobb (b. 1962) — also known asDavid Cobb — Born in San Leon,GalvestonCounty, Tex.,December24, 1962.Green.Lawyer;candidate forTexasstate attorney general, 2002; candidate forPresidentof the United States, 2004.Arrested,in St. Louis, Mo., on October 8, 2004, along with Libertarian Partypresidential nomineeMichaelBednarik, whileprotesting their exclusion frompresidential debates.Still living as of 2004.  | Leslie L. Farr II (born c.1978) — ofSt.Louis, Mo.Born about 1978. Republican.Trainconductor; delegate to Republican National Convention fromMissouri,2004;Republican candidate forU.S.Representative from Missouri 1st District, 2004, 2006 (primary);suspendedwithout pay in October 2004, for making apoliticalstatement (critical of Democratic presidential candidateJohnKerry) over the public address system of an Amtrak train;politicalconsultant.Africanancestry.Still living as of 2011. | | Joshua Selassie Wolf (b. 1982) — also known asJosh Wolf — ofSanFrancisco, Calif.Born in California,June 8,1982.Videojournalist;jailed226 days by a federal court for hisrefusalto turn over to prosecutors his tapes ofanarchist protestersclashing with police during a 2005 demonstration; released in April2007; candidate formayorof San Francisco, Calif., 2007.Jewishancestry.Still living as of 2007. | | Thomas Peter Lantos (1928-2008) — also known asTom Lantos;Tamas PeterLantos —of Millbrae,San MateoCounty, Calif.; Hillsborough,San MateoCounty, Calif.; San Mateo,San MateoCounty, Calif.Born in Budapest,Hungary,February1, 1928.Democrat.Universityprofessor;televisionnews commentator; delegate to Democratic National Convention fromCalifornia,1976,1988,1996,2000,2004;U.S.Representative from California, 1981-2008 (11th District 1981-93,12th District 1993-2008); died in office 2008.Jewish. Member,PhiBeta Kappa;SigmaAlpha Mu.Arrestedfor disorderly conduct in April 2006, while taking partcivildisobedience action toprotest genocide in Darfur, infront of the Sudaneseembassyin Washington, D.C.Died, ofcancerof the esophagus, inBethesdaNaval Medical Center, Bethesda,MontgomeryCounty, Md.,February11, 2008 (age80 years, 10days).Interment atCongressionalCemetery, Washington, D.C. | | Gordon James Klingenschmitt (b. 1968) — also known asGordon Klingenschmitt — of Colorado Springs,El PasoCounty, Colo.Born in Buffalo,ErieCounty, N.Y.,June 5,1968.Chaplain;wore his Navy uniform at a 2006political protest, withRoyMoore, in front of the White House; subsequentlycourt-martialedfordisobeyinga lawful order; he had been prohibited from appearing atpolitical events in uniform; ultimatelydischargedfrom the Navy; America's Party candidate for Presidential Elector forColorado,2012(on behalf ofTomHoefling andJonathanD. Ellis); member ofColoradostate house of representatives, 2015-16; candidate in Republicanprimary forColoradostate senate, 2016.EvangelicalChristian.Still living as of 2016. | | Addison Graves Wilson (b. 1947) — also known asJoe Wilson — of West Columbia,LexingtonCounty, S.C.; Springdale,LexingtonCounty, S.C.Born in Charleston,CharlestonCounty, S.C.,July 31,1947.Republican. Staff for U.S. Sen.StromThurmond, and for U.S. Rep.FloydSpence;lawyer;delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina,1972,2008;member ofSouthCarolina state senate, 1984-2001;U.S.Representative from South Carolina 2nd District, 2001-;rebukedby the House of Representatives in September, 2009, for abreach ofdecorum; he hadshouted "You Lie!" during an address byPresidentBarackObama.Presbyterian.Still living as of 2018.  | Yari Osorio — of New York City (unknowncounty), N.Y.Born in Cali,Colombia.Socialist.Emergencymedical technician; anti-war and social justice activist;arrestedin October, 2011, along with hundreds of others, during an OccupyWall Streetdemonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge in New YorkCity; Socialism and Liberation candidate forVicePresident of the United States, 2012.Colombianancestry.Still living as of 2012.| | Image source:Campaign web site (2012) |
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