Bailey Aldrich d. 25 Sep 2002 (V); last res: Cambridge, MA. G. Albert
Armor d. Dec 1979; last res: Fresno, CA. William P. Barber d. Jul 1984;
last res: Putnam, CT. Theodore M. Bowers d. 1 Jan 1995; last res:
Pompano Beach, FL (SS issued WV). Henry L. Bridges d. 6 Apr 2002
(P);last res: Raleigh, NC. William G. Buckley d. 27 Apr 1997 (V); last
res: Royal Oak, MI. Charles O. Burney d. Oct 1972; last res: Silver
Creek, NY. Vernon Q. Callaway d. 15 Dec 1988; last res: Welch, WV. Joe
E. Carr d. Oct 1981; last res: Nashville, TN. Toney E. Cline d. 12 Dec
1991; last res: Sutton,WV. Carroll L. Coburn d. Apr 1975; last res: East
Montpelier, VT. Marvin L. Coon b. 6 Aug 1907, d. 28 May 2002; last res:
Clarkston, MI. James J. Crisona d. 4 Sep 2003 (V); last res: New York,
NY. Preston B. Davis d. 13 Nov 1990; (SS issued PA). James S. Farnsworth
d. 26 June 2003 (V); last res: Lady Lake, FL (SS issued MI). Aubrey E.
Ferguson d. Nov 1977; last res: Harrisville, WV. Catharine Gibson d. 24
Aug 1997 (V); last res: Monroe, MI. John S. Gonas Mar 1994; last res:
Daphne, AL (SS issued IN). Henry E. Harner d. Nov 1980; last res:
Mechanicsville, PA. Sidney S. Hein d. Apr 1972; last res: Far Rockaway,
NY. Ralph W. Johnson, d. Aug 1997; last res: Isanti, MN. J.R. Keller
(James) d. Aug 1972; last res: Winona, MN. Frank R. Kenison d. Dec 1980;
last res: Concord, NH. Henry Kraf d. 22 Dec 1989 (V); last res: Bronx,
NY. Joseph R. Marro d. 21 Feb 1989; last res: New York, NY. C.H. McKown
(Charles) d. 8 Oct 1997 (V); last res: Huntington, WV. Cecil Mitchell d.
Dec 1981; last res & ben: Red Jacket, WV. Zeboim L. Patten d. Dec 1958;
(SS issued TN). George R. Perrine b. 19 Aug 1907, d. Jan 1993; last res:
Houston, TX (SS issued IL). Gordon Rosenmeier d. 17 Jan 1989; last res:
Little Falls, MN. Norman O. Stockmeyer d. 5 Oct 2002; last res:
Dearborn,MI. Dora M. Sweeney b. 19 June 1907, d. 30 Sep 2001(P); last
res: Juneau, AK. William C. Trimble d. 24 June 1996 (V); last res:
Brooklandville, MD. Ada B. Wien b. 1 Jul 1907, d. June 1984; last res:
Bellevue, WA (SS issued AK). Donald R. Wright d. Mar 1985; last res:
Pasadena, CA.
Helen Bremmer
http://community.webtv.net/hbremmer/AncestralTrailsanda
I was away on business for a couple of days, so didn't have a chance
to post the political birthdays from March 30th to April 1st. For
your edification, however, here they are:
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
James Michael Quigley (D-PA) is 86.
U.S. House 1955 to 1957 & 1959 to 1961
Unsuccessful candidate for re-election to U.S. House 1956 & 1960
Unsuccessful candidate for election to U.S. House 1950
William John Keating (R-OH) is 77. (*)
U.S. House 1971 to 1974
Cincinnati, OH, City Council 1967 to 1970
Judge, Hamilton Co., OH, Court of Common Pleas 1964 to 1967
Judge, Cincinnati, OH, Municipal Court 1959 to 1963
Raphael John Musto (D-PA) is 75. (*)
PA State Senate 1983 to 1991
U.S. House 1980 to 1981
PA House 1971 to 1980
Unsuccessful candidate for re-election to U.S. House 1980
First elected to U.S. House in a special election to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of U.S. Rep. Daniel J. Flood.
Anthony Claude Leach, Jr. (D-LA) is 70. (*)
U.S. House 1979 to 1981
LA House 1967 to 1978 & 1984 to ?
Unsuccessful candidate for re-election to U.S. House 1980
Robert C. Smith (R-NH) is 63.
U.S. Senate 1990 to 2003
U.S. House 1985 to 1990
Unsuccessful candidate for re-election to U.S. Senate 2002
Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. House 1980 & 1982
Robert Joseph Miller (D-NV) is 59.
Governor of Nevada 1989 to 1999
Lt. Governor of Nevada 1987 to 1989
Clark Co., NV, District Attorney 1979 to 1987
First assumed the office of Governor upon the resignation of
Governor Richard H. Bryan.
David Keith McCurdy (D-OK) is 54.
U.S. House 1981 to 1995
Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senate 1994
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Barney Frank (D-MA) is 64.
U.S. House 1981 to Present
MA House 1973 to 1981
Patrick Joseph Leahy (D-VT) is 64.
U.S. Senate 1975 to Present
Chittendon Co., VT, State's Attorney 1966 to 1974
Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME) is 60 (*)
Governor of Maine 1995 to 2003
Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. (D-TN) is 56.
45th Vice President of the United States 1993 to 2001
U.S. Senate 1985 to 1993
U.S. House 1977 to 1985
Unsuccessful candidate for President of the United States 1988 & 2000
James Creel Marshall (D-GA) is 56.
U.S. House 2003 to Present
Mayor of Macon, GA, 1995 to 1999
Greg Ganske, M.D. (R-IA) is 55.
U.S. House 1995 to 2003
Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senate 2002
Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA) is 49.
U.S. House 2001 to Present
MA State Senate 1997 to 2001
MA House 1995 to 1997
First elected to U.S. House in a special election to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of U.S. Rep. John Joseph Moakley.
Dennis A. Cardoza (D-CA) is 45. (*)
U.S. House 2003 to Present
CA Assembly 1996 to 2002
Atwater, CA, City Council 1984 to 1987
Thursday, April 1, 2004
Brendan Thomas Byrne (D-NJ) is 80.
Governor of New Jersey 1974 to 1982
John Berlinger Breaux (D-LA) is 60.
U.S. Senate 1987 to Present
U.S. House 1972 to 1987
First elected to U.S. House in a special election to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of U.S. Rep. Edwin W. Edwards.
Peter R. Deutsch (D-FL) is 47.
U.S. House 1993 to Present
FL House 1983 to 1993
(*) indicates TPG listing for this individual needs to be updated.
Today is Friday, April 2, 2004. There are three political birthdays
today. They are as follows:
Howard Hollis Callaway (R-GA) is 77.
U.S. Secretary of the Army 1973 to 1975
U.S. House 1965 to 1967
Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Georgia 1966
Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senate 1980
Frank Leroy Farrar (R-SD) is 75.
Governor of South Dakota 1969 to 1971
Attorney General of South Dakota 1963 to 1969
Paul E. Kanjorski (D-PA) is 67.
U.S. House 1985 to Present
Hi.
Does anyone know where on-line I might find good sources for stories
of how politics really gets done? Who fell on their sword for whom?
Who added a rider to a bill to ensure its defeat, etc., etc.? This
is the kind of stuff often found in political memoirs and I was
wondering where to go to read them on-line, as well? Thanks.
Sorry I can't help. As you say, it's the "real story" kind of stuff you
find in political memoirs, tell-alls, etc. Sounds like it would make
an interestibg site. If you can't find anything already online, why
not start a site yourself? Good luck. Jim Smith
--- In political-graveyard@yahoogroups.com, "phalexandrian"
<phalexandrian@y...> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Does anyone know where on-line I might find good sources for
stories
> of how politics really gets done? Who fell on their sword for
whom?
> Who added a rider to a bill to ensure its defeat, etc., etc.? This
> is the kind of stuff often found in political memoirs and I was
> wondering where to go to read them on-line, as well? Thanks.
start with
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
by Robert A. Caro -- a stunningly detailed and insightful bio of LBJ and
history of Congress in the 1950s
Richard Jensen rjensen@...
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To: <political-graveyard@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 11:05 AM
Subject: [political-graveyard] Stories of backroom politics on-line
> Hi.
>
> Does anyone know where on-line I might find good sources for stories
> of how politics really gets done? Who fell on their sword for whom?
> Who added a rider to a bill to ensure its defeat, etc., etc.? This
> is the kind of stuff often found in political memoirs and I was
> wondering where to go to read them on-line, as well? Thanks.
>
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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Today is Saturday, April 3, 2004. There are only two political
birthdays today. They are as follows:
Robert Kenneth Dornan (R-CA) is 71.
U.S. House 1977 to 1983 & 1985 to 1997
Unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles, CA, 1973
Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senate 1982
Unsuccessful candidate for re-election to U.S. House 1996
Unsuccessful candidate for election to U.S. House 1998
Unsuccessful candidate for President of the United States 1996
Katie Beatrice Green Hall (D-IN) is 66.
U.S. House 1982 to 1985
IN State Senate 1976 to 1982
IN House 1974 to 1976
First elected to U.S. House in a special election to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of U.S. Rep. Adam Benjamin.
Unsuccessful candidate for re-election to U.S. House 1984
Unsuccessful candidate for election to U.S. House 1990
Today is Sunday, April 4, 2004. There are eight political birthdays
today. They are as follows:
Charles Orlando Porter (D-OR) is 85. (*)
U.S. House 1957 to 1961
Unsuccessful candidate for re-election to U.S. House 1960
Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. House 1964, 1966, 1972, & 1976
Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senate 1980
William Floyd Clinger, Jr. (R-PA) is 75.
U.S. House 1979 to 1997
Harold Lee Volkmer (D-MO) is 73.
U.S. House 1977 to 1997
MO House 1967 to 1976
Marion Co., MO, Prosecuting Attorney 1960 to 1966
Unsuccessful candidate for re-election to U.S. House 1996
Richard Green Lugar (R-IN) is 72.
U.S. Senate 1977 to Present
Mayor of Indianapolis, IN, 1968 to 1975
Indianapolis, IN, Board of School Commissioners 1964 to 1967
Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senate 1974
Unsuccessful candidate for President of the United States 1996
Robert Edmund Bauman (R-MD) is 67.
U.S. House 1973 to 1981
MD State Senate 1971 to 1973
Unsuccessful candidate for re-election to U.S. House 1980
First elected to U.S. House in a special election to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of U.S. Rep. William O. Mills.
Darlene Hooley (D-OR) is 65.
U.S. House 1997 to Present
Clackamas Co., OR, Board of Commissioners 1987 to 1996
OR House 1980 to 1986
West Linn, OR, City Council 1977 to 1980
James Michael Shannon (D-MA) is 52.
Attorney General of Massachusetts 1987 to 1991
U.S. House 1979 to 1985
Unsuccessful candidate for re-election as MA Attorney General 1990
Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senate 1984
Melissa A. Hart (R-PA) is 42.
U.S. House 2001 to Present
PA State Senate 1991 to 2000
(*) indicates TPG listing for this individual needs to be updated.
Today is Monday, April 5, 2004. There are four political birthdays
today. They are as follows:
Eugene Vincent Atkinson (D/R-PA) is 77.
U.S. House 1979 to 1983
Beaver Co., PA, County Commissioner 1972 to 1978
Unsuccessful Republican candidate for re-election to U.S. House 1982
Colin Luther Powell is 67.
U.S. Secretary of State 2001 to Present
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1989 to 1993
U.S. National Security Advisor 1987 to 1989
Peter T. King (R-NY) is 60.
U.S. House 1993 to Present
Comptroller of Nassau Co., NY, 1981 to 1993
Hempstead, NY, Town Council 1977 to 1981
Katherine Harris (R-FL) is 47.
U.S. House 2003 to Present
FL Secretary of State 1999 to 2002
FL State Senate 1994 to 1998
Today is Tuesday, April 6, 2004. There are four political birthdays
today. They are as follows:
Steven Boghos Derounian (R-NY) is 86. (*)
Justice of the NY Supreme Court 1969 to 1981
U.S. House 1953 to 1965
Hempstead, NY, Town Council 1948 to 1952
Unsuccessful candidate for re-election to U.S. House 1964
Bruce King (D-NM) is 80. (*)
Governor of New Mexico 1971 to 1975, 1979 to 1983 & 1991 to 1995
NM House 1959 to 1969
NM House Speaker 1963 to 1969
Santa Fe Board of County Commissioners 1954 to 1959
Edward Schrock (R-VA) is 63.
U.S. House 2001 to Present
VA State Senate 1995 to 2001
Dennis Edward Eckart (D-OH) is 54.
U.S. House 1981 to 1993
OH House 1975 to 1980
(*) indicates TPG listing for this individual needs to be updated.
Note: Among other admirable facts in his resume,
Congressman Derounian was a New York (Long Island)
Republican serving on the Oversight Subcommittee of the
House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee that
investigated the "quiz show scandals" in '59.
Producers of shows like the "$64,000 Question" and
"Twenty-One" gave favored contestants (i.e ratings-pullers)
answers in advance to make sure they would last longer.
Americans were agog at the brainpower of
these cooperating fakes. Actually, many were really bright
people. But the producers took no chances.
When some other members of the committee were almost
apologetic to witnesses who had shammed the public,
Derounian was the curmudgeon who reminded his colleagues
that these producers were moral and ethical reprobates. And
when the panel fell all over Charles Van Doren for being honest
about his part in the scam, it was Derounian who reminded
everybody, including Van Doren, that no one was due any thanks
for simply being honest (belatedly at that). Some years later,
Derounian went down in the Johnson avalanche of '64. Jim
Smith-----------------------
Does anyone have any information on the 1868 race for New Jersey
governor in which John I. Blair was defeated? I think Blair, who was
a railroad tycoon from Blairstown New Jersey, ran on the republican
ticket. Our group cannot find any information on why Blair was
defeated or who he was running against in 1868. This was his only
try at politics. Blair died in 1899 and his net worth at the time of
his death was 70 million. Blairstown NJ and Blairstown Iowa are
named for Blair. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Brian Rhodes / Blairstown Historical Society
blairstownhistory@...
<<Snip>> Producers of shows like the "$64,000 Question" and "Twenty-One"
gave favored contestants (i.e ratings-pullers) >>Clip<<
I remember the shows AND the scandals. And if I recall correctly, this was
before the payola scandals in reference to radio and record
producers............
At the time, $64K was a LOT of money!
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11:46 AM Tuesday, April 06, 04
Today is Wednesday, April 7, 2004. There are three political
birthdays today. They are as follows:
Charles Albert Vanik (D-OH) is 91. (*)
U.S. House 1955 to 1981
Cleveland, OH, Municipal Court Judge 1947 to 1954
Cleveland, OH, Library Board 1946
Cleveland, OH, Board of Education 1941 to 1942
OH State Senate 1940 to 1942
Cleveland, OH, City Council 1938 to 1940
Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr. (D-CA) is 66.
Mayor of Oakland, CA, 1998 to Present
Governor of California 1975 to 1983
CA Secretary of State 1971 to 1975
Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. President 1976, 1980, & 1992
Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senate 1982
Robert A. Brady (D-PA) is 59.
U.S. House 1998 to Present
First elected to U.S. House in a special election to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of U.S. Rep. Thomas Foglietta.
(*) indicates TPG listing for this individual needs to be updated.
Edda, I remember it all, too. The dj "payola" and the quiz show
scadals were roughly contemporary. Dick Clark could have lost it
all. But apparently he was clean. His producer for "American
Bandstand" producer took a fall, though.
And as a quiz show prize $64,000 was, indeed, a lot of dough.
Remember Gino Prato and Myrt Powers? Some big names
came under suspicion, too. Vincent Price took home a bunch of
dough as an "art specialist" and newly-minted psychologist in
1955, Dr. Joyce Brothers, got famous as the first woman to win
$64,000 as a "boxing specialist." Paid off a lot of tuition bills,
guess. Regards, Jim Smith-------
--- In political-graveyard@yahoogroups.com, "Edda R. Pittman"
<EddaRPittman@c...> wrote:
> <<Snip>> Producers of shows like the "$64,000 Question" and
"Twenty-One"
> gave favored contestants (i.e ratings-pullers) >>Clip<<
>
>
>
> I remember the shows AND the scandals. And if I recall
correctly, this was
> before the payola scandals in reference to radio and record
> producers............
>
> At the time, $64K was a LOT of money!
>
>
>
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> *TABLE THIS!* - Parliamentary Humor Booklet - Debuted
01-21-2003
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> EDDA R. PITTMAN Plain text messages only (Mail to:)
> EddaRPittman@c...
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> 11:46 AM Tuesday, April 06, 04
Ms. Bremmer,
I believe you may need to define "first" as in the context of first
to recognize.
Actually on April 3rd, 1783 Benjamin Franklin signed a treaty of
friendship and commerce with the representative of the King of
Sweden..
see: http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/speeches/1983/40483c.htm
Somewhere I rememeber reading a Franklin essay that while he was
negotiating the Tready of Paris ending the hostilities with England
he had a visit from the Swedish ambassador asking for an audience
where it a treaty of friendship was requested.. Franklin was
surprised and supposedly commented with pleasure that it was
wonderful that a respected established kingdom would seek a treaty
of friendship in such a fashion when it had been the diplomatic
custom for the newest country to seek recognition from the older
[more established] country.
The first treaty after the Revolutionary War [surrender of
Cornwallis] recognizing our new country seems to be with Sweden..
The Treaty of Paris [with England] was then signed September 3rd,
1783..
Now there was a "Treaty of Alliance" with the King of France dated
February 6, 1778. It provided for a good degree of support from
France to the United States during the Revolutionary War. Certainly
this could be seen as a treaty of friendship.
Might the Treaty with Morroco be the first after the Treaty of
Paris?? Or might the King of Morroco have extended a verbal jesture
without a treaty??
ken gibala
Maryland
=========================
--- In political-graveyard@yahoogroups.com, hbremmer@w... wrote:
> Larry,
> Does'nt Morocco have pride of place? After all, the King of
Morocco
> was the first to extend diplomatic recognition to the U.S. in 1786
I
> think. Perhaps your correspondent means in Europe.
>
> Helen Bremmer
>
> http://community.webtv.net/hbremmer/AncestralTrailsanda
Brian: He was defeated by a Democrat, Theodore Fitz Randolph.
The only story behind the election may be that Randolph got
more votes than Blair. But if there is something chewy you can
almost certainly find it at the New York Public Library at 5th
Avenue and 42nd Street . It's one of the world's 10 great research
libraries. In the Main Reading Room on the 3rd floor they have
top-notch librarians at the counter who'll steer you to what you're
looking for. If the material isn't in that building they'll tell you
where else to look.
Their microfilms of the New York Times may go back that far.
Certainly, there would have been coverage around Election Day
of the doins' of our fair neighbor across the Hudson.
I'm assuming you are fairly close to the city. Good luck. Jim
Smith---------------
--- In political-graveyard@yahoogroups.com, "brianrhodes1956"
<blairstownhistory@e...> wrote:
> Does anyone have any information on the 1868 race for New
Jersey
> governor in which John I. Blair was defeated? I think Blair, who
was
> a railroad tycoon from Blairstown New Jersey, ran on the
republican
> ticket. Our group cannot find any information on why Blair was
> defeated or who he was running against in 1868. This was his
only
> try at politics. Blair died in 1899 and his net worth at the time
of
> his death was 70 million. Blairstown NJ and Blairstown Iowa
are
> named for Blair. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Brian Rhodes / Blairstown Historical Society
> blairstownhistory@e...
According to "Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections,"
Blair, a Republican, lost to Theodore F. Randolph (D) 79,333 (48.6%)
to 83,955 (51.4%) Randolph later became a US Senator from NJ.
I don't know what issues were important in the 1868 NJ election,
although he is said to have broke up the political monopolies of the
time, as well as some industrial ones.
Gov/Sen. Randolph appears in Political Graveyard, and I also found
this bio onlnie:
RANDOLPH, Theodore Fitz (son of James Fitz Randolph), a Senator from
New Jersey; born in Mansfield, Tioga County, Pa., June 24, 1826;
attended the common schools of New [p.1718] Brunswick, N.J., engaged
in mercantile pursuits; moved to Vicksburg, Miss., and engaged in
business in 1840; returned to New Jersey and settled in Jersey City
in 1852; became interested in mining and the transportation of ores
and was president of the Morris & Essex Railroad; member of the
State house of assembly in 1859; member of the State senate in 1862
and 1863; Governor of New Jersey 1869-1872; elected as a Democrat to
the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1875, to March 3,
1881; died in Morristown, Morris County, N.J., November 7, 1883;
interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
Biographies R - page 1718
Also, check out this link:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~njmorris/lewisbios1899/randolphtheodore.htm
If the link is cut off by the Yahoo! program, use GOOGLE to
search "Theodore F. Randolph" and look at the first entry after the
Political Graveyard ones, which of course top the list. It is a good
exposition of his term in office, which might lend some clues about
his campaign.
For information on John I. Blair, including photos and a family
tree, GOOGLE "Blair family papers" for the site.
Hope this helps.
Stephen Abbott
--- In political-graveyard@yahoogroups.com, "brianrhodes1956"
<blairstownhistory@e...> wrote:
> Does anyone have any information on the 1868 race for New Jersey
> governor in which John I. Blair was defeated? I think Blair, who
was
> a railroad tycoon from Blairstown New Jersey, ran on the
republican
> ticket. Our group cannot find any information on why Blair was
> defeated or who he was running against in 1868. This was his only
> try at politics. Blair died in 1899 and his net worth at the time
of
> his death was 70 million. Blairstown NJ and Blairstown Iowa are
> named for Blair. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Brian Rhodes / Blairstown Historical Society
> blairstownhistory@e...
I think it might have been General George McClellan of Civil War fame..He was
governor about that time.
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The following is an obituary from The Providence Journal concerning
the passing of retired Rhode Island Supreme Court Justice, and former
State Senator, Florence K. Murray -- quite a lady!
NEWPORT -- Florence Kerins Murray, Rhode Island's first female judge,
who spent four decades on the bench -- originally on the state
Superior Court, and then as a justice on the Rhode Island Supreme
Court -- died early Sunday morning, at Newport Hospital, after
falling inside her house on Kay Street. She was 87.
Murray, a widow who had lived alone since the death of her husband,
Paul F. Murray, in 1995, died of internal injuries, according to
former Rhode Island Supreme Court administrator John H. Barrette, a
close friend of the retired justice who was at her side when she
died.
A pioneer in politics and the law, Murray served as a Democratic
state senator from Newport from 1948 to 1956, when she was sworn in
as the state's first female Superior Court judge.
She became the first female chief judge of the Superior Court in
1978, and when she was elected by the General Assembly to the state
Supreme Court in November 1979, she became the first woman on that
bench.
Barrette said that Murray had a jam-packed day on Wednesday. He drove
her to two doctors' appointments and to her final meeting as a board
member of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, and then to Wal-
Mart so she could shop.
Barrette and his wife, Kathy, then took Murray out to dinner at her
favorite Newport restaurant, La Forge Casino.
But after Murray retired for the night on Wednesday, she fell in her
house, Barrette said.
Barrette said that Murray balked at seeking medical treatment, but
that he and his wife decided Friday night, after bringing Murray a
fish dinner at home, that they would return the next morning and take
her to the hospital.
When the Barrettes returned to Murray's home on Saturday morning,
they found that she had fallen for a second time, and could not get
up from the floor. A rescue was called to take her to Newport
Hospital, where she died at 3 a.m. Sunday, Barrette said.
Murray "was probably, besides my Mom and wife, one of the most
remarkable women I've ever met," said Barrette, who said he
considered Murray "a surrogate mother."
"She was a walking history book about the courts, Newport, national
politics. She knew everyone," said Barrette.
The Newport County Court House was named after her in 1990, and her
stature as a jurist was recognized nationally. From 1980 to 1987, she
chaired the board of directors of the National Judicial College, the
country's school for new judges. Barrette said that last summer, when
Murray attended a Blue Cross board meeting on Cape Cod, former
presidential candidate Ross Perot, who was a featured speaker,
greeted her by name.
Rhode Island Chief Justice Frank J. Williams called Murray "an
inspiration to many -- especially women. Her mind was keen until the
end and it was altogether fitting and proper that if we had to lose
her, it would be during the month celebrating women."
Murray retired from the state's high court in 1996 but continued to
sit on the bench part-time until a couple of years ago.
Her last big case, which she was called out of retirement to hear,
was the state's appeal of a decision by a Superior Court judge to
throw out all the corruption charges against former Gov. Edward D.
DiPrete and his son, Dennis L. DiPrete, because of prosecutorial
misconduct. Justice Murray decided, with the majority of the
justices, that dismissal of the charges was too severe a sanction,
and sent the case back to the Superior Court for trial. (DiPrete
ended up pleading guilty to 18 felony charges and served 11 months in
prison; his son pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and paid a $1,000
fine.)
Governor Carcieri yesterday ordered the flags at all state offices to
be lowered to half-staff through Thursday in Murray's honor. Williams
ordered flags at all court facilities in the state to be lowered to
half-staff for 30 days.
Supreme Court Justice Maureen McKenna Goldberg, who took Murray's
seat on the high court upon her retirement, lauded her "for having
broken down so many barriers that were previously closed to women. I
believe her greatest accomplishment is that, before she boldly
marched into uncharted territory, she paused, turned around and
beckoned the rest of us to follow."
Murray wasn't the type of person who trumpeted her accomplishments.
She described herself as "Mrs. Vanilla" in a lengthy interview
published in The Providence Sunday Journal in 1997. "I haven't got
any special attributes," she said. "I just do a job as well as I can
do it and I seek to keep myself well-informed about whatever my field
of work is."
She was known as a judge who liked to get to the heart of a problem
quickly, someone with street smarts, a feminist before that word was
popular, and someone with strong opinions. As a Supreme Court
justice, she would make a painstaking search of a court record to
support what she believed was a just result.
"I'm a prober . . . . I'm tenacious, stubborn but not intractable,"
said Murray. "I'm inclined to have a lot of patience and to be a
listener . . . . In the law, I'm an issue-finder but I also think I'm
a solution-finder.
"I was a very good student in law school, and one of the things that
saddens me is that my academic talents get overshadowed by 'the first
woman syndrome.' People tend to think women have minimum academic
credentials. They think that the reason I got where I did was because
I was a woman, not because I was smart.
"There are a lot of women who are dumbbells and a lot of men who are
buffoons," said Murray. "If you're going to give the public their
due, appoint, elect or hire someone based on their qualifications,
not their gender."
Ronald V. Gallo, president and CEO of The Rhode Island Foundation,
where Murray served on the board, called her "both feisty and
generous to the end. Florence was not shy about expressing her
opinions," Gallo said, and "continued to offer us wise counsel as
recently as two weeks ago."
Murray, a lifelong Newport resident, was the daughter of the late
John and Florence (MacDonald) Kerins.
A graduate of Newport's Rogers High School and of Syracuse
University, in New York -- where she would later serve for many years
on the board of trustees -- Murray taught school for a year in a one-
room schoolhouse on Prudence Island before going to law school.
She was the only woman in the graduating class of 1942 at Boston
University Law School.
She joined the Women's Army Corps after graduation and was promoted
to lieutenant colonel before leaving the service in 1947. She was the
youngest woman to achieve that rank at the time.
Upon leaving the Army, she opened a one-woman law firm above a
grocery store on Thames Street and later practiced law with her now-
deceased husband, who went on to serve as U.S. Attorney for Rhode
Island from 1977 to 1981.
During Murray's six years in the Rhode Island Senate, she was the
only woman in that chamber. While there, she sponsored legislation to
abolish wage differences based on gender and for equal pay for
teachers throughout the state. She also introduced a bill making it
easier for a parent to get child support if a former spouse leaves
the state, and another that led to the creation of state facilities
for the care and treatment of alcoholics.
At the same time as she was a senator, Murray was also a member of
the Newport School Committee.
Asked how she broke the gender barrier to become Rhode Island's first
female judge, Murray said: "I refuse to recognize any gender barriers
and considered those who did ignorant."
Upon reflection, Murray said she enjoyed life as a trial judge better
than that as an appellate judge, where "you're only one-fifth of a
judge." She said the hardest part of her job as a judge was
that "sometimes, you have to apply law which does not seem to
accomplish justice."
She was a member of the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, and a
recipient of a Citizen of the Year Award from the Rhode Island Trial
Lawyers Association and a Judge of the Year Award from the National
Association of Women Judges. The American Bar Association honored her
in 2002 for pioneering work, in the late 1950s, that led to the
establishment of Rhode Island's Family Court.
She served on numerous judicial and civic boards over the years,
among them, Salve Regina College and Bryant College.
She founded the Newport Girls Club.
In her retirement, Murray was appointed by President Clinton to serve
on the board of directors of the State Justice Institute and remained
active in National Judicial College affairs.
Murray leaves a son, Paul M. Murray, of Algonquin, Ill.
The funeral will be held in Newport on Friday, at 9 a.m., from the
Memorial Funeral Home, 375 Broadway, with a Mass of Christian Burial
at 10 a.m. in St. Mary Church. Burial will be private.
Hi!
Several years ago the postal service issued a stamp celebrating our
long relationship with Morocco. In 1777 the Sultan of Morocco decided to
extend his country's friendship to the American colonies. Due to the
poor communication system of the time and the Revolutionary War no one
in this country heard about it until 1784. We did not send a consul
until 1786 when Thomas Barclay and the Sultan signed the Treaty of
Marrakesh. In 1797 our consulate was founded in Tangiers. I can't
remember where I read this but, in a discussion on whether or not the
Confederate states had achieved nationhood, the author stated that they
had not because, unlike the U.S., no other nation had recognized them
and when the Sultanate of Morocco recognized the U.S. we became a
nation.
Helen Bremmer
http://community.webtv.net/hbremmer/AncestralTrailsanda
Born 21 Oct. 1916 in Newport, RI. Her husband, former U.S. Attorney
(1977-1981) Paul F. Murray, died in 1995. She received several military
awards including the Legion of Merit. Murray was a lifelong communicant
of St. Mary's Church (RCC) in Newport but I haven't been able to
determine where she was buried.
Helen Bremmer
http://community.webtv.net/hbremmer/AncestralTrailsanda
> American National Biography Online
>
>
> Smith, Jeremiah (29 Nov. 1759-21 Sept. 1842), member of Congress,
> fourth governor of New Hampshire, and chief justice of New Hampshire,
> was born at Peterborough, New Hampshire, the son of William Smith,
> a justice of the peace, and Elizabeth Morison, both farmers.
> Smith's father was a member of the Provincial Congress in 1774.
> Smith did not have much early formal education. He entered Harvard
> in 1777, stayed two years, and, after serving briefly in the
> American Revolution, graduated from Queens College (now Rutgers)
> in 1780. Having determined to enter the law, Smith spent several
> years teaching in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and studying
> law alone. He was admitted to the bar at Amherst in Hillsborough
> County, New Hampshire, in 1786 and spent the remainder of his
> life in the law in New Hampshire. Rapidly becoming prominent
> in public life, Smith served as selectman in Peterborough and
> its representative in the general assembly, 1788-1790; member
> of the 1791 New Hamphsire constitutional convention, where he
> helped draft the judiciary article; member of a special committee
> for collecting and codifying the law of New Hampshire, 1792;
> and Federalist member of Congress, 1790-1797.
>
> In 1797 Smith retired from Congress to become U.S. attorney
> for the New Hampshire district and moved to Exeter. In that same
> year he married Eliza Ross of Maryland, with whom he had five
> children. Appointed probate judge for Rockingham County in 1800,
> Smith improved that branch of New Hampshire law and gathered
> materials for a treatise on the subject titled "An Essay on the
> Law of Descent and of Last Wills and Testaments." On 20 February
> 1801 President John Adams appointed him to one of the new federal
> circuit court judgeships created by the Judiciary Act of 1801.
> His tenure was brief because the Repeal Act of 1802 canceled
> those judgeships. Before assuming that post, he had studied fourteen
> hours a day for three months and thereafter spoke of that preparation
> time as the beginning of his legal education. On 17 May 1802
> he became chief justice of New Hampshire and worked hard for
> the next seven years to modernize and systematize New Hampshire
> law. He resigned the chief justiceship in 1809 to serve one term
> as governor and then resumed his law practice.
>
> Politics and the law were closely intertwined in Smith's life.
> Stalwart federalism had played an important, if secondary, role
> in his judicial appointments and in his election as New Hampshire's
> fourth governor. After an electoral victory in 1813, New Hampshire
> Federalists radically reorganized the state's courts, throwing
> out all the existing judges and making all judges subject to
> removal through impeachment and by the governor and council when
> asked by the legislature. Smith had profound objections to this
> judicial reorganization--he had lost his federal judgeship through
> just such a change--but his party loyalty caused him to accept
> appointment as chief justice in 1813 and to hold court until
> 1816 when victorious New Hampshire Republicans brought another
> wave of judicial reform.
>
> The Republican victory in 1816 also brought to a boil the simmering
> political and sectarian feud known as the Dartmouth College case,
> in which Smith along with Jeremiah Mason and Daniel Webster represented
> the college trustees in their effort to stop a state takeover
> of the institution. Smith, like Mason, was a powerful shaper
> of the trustees' argument that the charter of Dartmouth College
> was a grant establishing a private corporation, a private right
> that the state could not deprive without due process of law,
> a judicial inquiry into the reasonableness of the deprivation.
> Webster used Smith's and Mason's arguments as the basis for his
> successful argument before the Supreme Court of the United States
> in 1819. Smith's argument is reported in Timothy Farrar's Report
> of the Case of the Trustees of Dartmouth College against William
> H. Woodward (1819).
>
> In 1820 Smith retired from practice and became president of
> the branch of the Bank of the United States at Exeter; he also
> served as treasurer at Phillips Exeter Academy, 1828-1842. He
> retained his legendary humor and maintained his reputation as
> an extraordinary conversationalist and master of repartee. After
> the death of his wife, he married Elizabeth Hale of Dover, New
> Hampshire, in 1831; they had one child. In 1842 Smith moved to
> Dover, where he died.
>
> Smith's reputation and place in history rest squarely on his
> prowess as a state judge and judicial reformer. His opinions
> were distinguished by painstaking legal research, and he was
> one of the pioneers of reform of the bench in New Hampshire.
> He was to the bench what Mason had been to the bar of New Hampshire.
> As a lawyer Smith fit well with the "giants" of Rockingham County.
> William Plumer, Jr., called Smith "the Menelaus, with a touch
> of the Thersites humor" to Mason's Agememnon (Peabody, p. 179).
> Lawyer Smith pointed his arguments more to the court than to
> the jury and worked to persuade the courts to clarify and standardize
> New Hampshire law and practice. He was, for example, one of the
> first and most successful advocates of judicial review in New
> Hampshire. Then, after election to the court in 1802, Smith brought
> to the New Hampshire judiciary the same quality of argument and
> attention to forms that distinguished giants of the Rockingham County bar.
>
> New Hampshire chief justice Charles Doe, in Lisbon v. Lyman
> (1870), noted that "Chief Justice Smith, who found the law of
> New Hampshire in practice and administration, a chaos, and who
> left it comparatively an organized and scientific system," had
> provided the state with judicial labors of "inestimable" value.
>
>
> Bibliography
>
> The best collection of Smith papers is in J. H. Morison, Life
> of the Honorable Jeremiah Smith, LL.D. (1845). Morison was the
> custodian of Smith's papers at his death and from them produced
> his memoir. Morison's Life also contains Smith's probate treatise.
> There were no official court records published for New Hampshire
> prior to 1816. Smith's careful record of the cases that came
> before him, however, is in Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Decisions of
> the Superior and Supreme Courts of N.H., from 1801 to 1809 and
> from 1813 to 1816. Selected from the Manuscript Reports of the
> Late Jeremiah Smith, Chief Justice of Those Courts with Extracts
> from Judge Smith's Manuscript Treatise on Probate Law (1879).
> Charles Henry Bell, Bench and Bar of New Hampshire (1894), offers
> a full biographical treatment. William Plumer, Jr., Life of William
> Plumer, ed. A. P. Peabody (1857; repr. 1969), gives a full but
> not always accurate discussion of Smith and the other personalities
> of the Rockingham County bar. See also Lynn W. Turner, William
> Plumer of New Hampshire, 1759-1850 (1962). For Smith's argument
> in the Dartmouth College case, see Francis N. Stites, Private
> Interest and Public Gain: The Dartmouth College Case, 1819 (1972).
> An obituary is in the Boston Daily Advertiser, 21 Sept. 1842.
>
> Francis N. Stites
>
>
>
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>
> Citation:
> Francis N. Stites. "Smith, Jeremiah";
> http://www.anb.org/articles/11/11-00792.html;
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Today is Thursday, April 8, 2004. There are six political birthdays
today. They are as follows:
James Carson Gardner (R-NC) is 71.
Lt. Governor of North Carolina 1989 to 1993
U.S. House 1967 to 1969
Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of North Carolina 1968
Albert Garza Bustamante (D-TX) is 69.
U.S. House 1985 to 1993
Bexar Co., TX, County Judge 1979 to 1984
Bexar Co., TX, County Commissioner 1973 to 1978
Unsuccessful candidate for re-election to U.S. House 1992
Martin James Schreiber (D-WI) is 65.
Governor of Wisconsin 1977 to 1979
Lt. Governor of Wisconsin 1971 to 1977
WI State Senate 1962 to 1970
Assumed the office of Governor to fill the unexpired term of Governor
Patrick Lucey, who resigned to become U.S. Ambassador to Mexico.
Joseph Eugene Kernan (D-IN) is 58. (+)
Governor of Indiana 2003 to Present
Lt. Governor of Indiana 1997 to 2003
Mayor of South Bend, IN, 1987 to 1997
City Controller of South Bend, IN, 1980 to 1984
Assumed the office of Governor to fill the vacancy created by the
death of Governor Frank O'Bannon.
Thomas Dale DeLay (R-TX) is 57.
U.S. House 1985 to Present
U.S. House Majority Leader 2003 to Present
U.S. House Majority Whip 1995 to 2003
TX House 1979 to 1985
David Wu (D-OR) is 49.
U.S House 1999 to Present
(+) indicates that there is no listing for this individual in TPG.
My understanding is that Justice Murray may not have been buried yet. Since
she was a Catholic, and this is Holy Week, many wait until Easter Monday to
bury the deceased who have died during Holy Week. In fact, I personally
know two people who have died this week, and their wakes won't even be until
early next week. For more information on Mrs. Murray, you may want to visit
the web site of The Providence Journal -- www. projo.com. You have to
register to get on their site, but it's free.
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Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 12:51 AM
Subject: [political-graveyard] Update: Florence Murray
> Born 21 Oct. 1916 in Newport, RI. Her husband, former U.S. Attorney
> (1977-1981) Paul F. Murray, died in 1995. She received several military
> awards including the Legion of Merit. Murray was a lifelong communicant
> of St. Mary's Church (RCC) in Newport but I haven't been able to
> determine where she was buried.
>
> Helen Bremmer
>
> http://community.webtv.net/hbremmer/AncestralTrailsanda
>
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Hall, Kathryn Walt U.S. Ambassador to Austria, was made a member of
the Berkeley High School (CA) Hall of Fame last Friday (April 2,
2004). She was in the class of 1963
George Mallman
B.H.S 69
Today is Good Friday, April 9, 2004. There are three political
birthdays today. They are as follows:
Harris Llewellyn Wofford (D-PA) is 78.
U.S. Senate 1991 to 1995
Originally appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy created
by the death of U.S. Senator Henry John Heinz, III.
Unsuccessful candidate for re-election to U.S. Senate 1994.
Earl Frederick Hilliard (D-AL) is 62.
U.S. House 1993 to 2003
AL State Senate 1981 to 1993
AL House 1975 to 1981
Unsuccessful candidate for re-election to U.S. House 2002.
Charles Joseph Scarborough (R-FL) is 41.
U.S. House 1995 to 2001
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Today is Saturday, April 10, 2004. There is only one political
birthday today. It is as follows:
James Fred Hastings (R-NY) is 78.
U.S. House 1969 to 1976
NY State Senate 1965 to 1969
NY State Assembly 1963 to 1965
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