Marshall J Parker, A republican state senator from South Carolina State (1957-1961). Unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 1966, 1968, 1974 and 1980. Reagan...
Charles T. Cross, An American diplomat to Singapore (1969-1972) and U.S. consule in Hong Kong(1973-1977) and would later become director of the American...
Cecil Underwood, former governor of WV (1956-1964, 1997-2000), died November 24, 2008 at Charleston Area Medical Center's Memorial Hospital of pneumonia. He...
Jeff Hays, former IN state representative (1970-1996), died December 22, 2008 of natural causes at his home in Evansville. He was born De4cember 27, 1929 in...
Barney Goltz, former WA state senator (1974-1987), died of sudden cardiac arrest during a family Christmas dinner in Olympia. He was born in 1924 in Balatin to...
Griffin Bell, former attorney general under Carter (1976-1979), died January 5, 2009 at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta of pancreatic cancer and kidney disease....
Mike Peters, former mayor of Hartford, Conn. (1993-2001), died January 4, 2009 of liver failure several months after a liver transplant for alcoholic...
Nicholas Rey, former U.S. ambassador to Poland (1993-1997), died January 10, 2009 of lung cancer at his home in Georgetown, Washington, DC. He was born in...
Bob Monagan, former CA Assembly speaker (1969-1970), died January 7, 2009 at a convalescent hospital in Sacramento. He was born July 5, 1920 in Ogden, UT to...
Hi! I noticed Leo H. Tellier, Jr., obituary in The Providence Journal http://www.projo.com ,. He was a Republican nominee for General Treasurer decades ago...
* NEW LESSON PLAN * THE SAGA OF THE MONEY TRAIL: DEVELOPING THE FEDERAL BUDGET During The Dirksen Congressional Center's annual Congress in the Classroom®...
James Pearson, former U.S. senator from KS, died January 13, 2009 at his home in Gloucester, Mass. In addition to his Gloucester home he owned a farm near...
Bob Scott, former governor of NC (1969-1973), died January 23, 2009 at the Hospice Palliative Care Center of Alamance County. He was born June 13, 1929 near...
Joe Rodgers, former U.S. ambassador to France (1985-1989), died February 2, 2009 at his home in Nashville of cancer. He was born November 12, 1933 in Bay...
Wendell Wyatt, former OR U.S. representative (1964-1975), died January 28, 2009 at his home in Portland. He was born June 15, 1917 in Eugene to Henry and...
The Dirksen Congressional Center of Pekin, Il -- http://www.dirksencongressionalcenter.org -- has partnered with Federal Network, Inc. of Washington, DC --...
Horace Kornegay, former NC U.S. representative, died January 21, 2009 at Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greesboro. He was born March 12, 1924 in Buncombe...
Guy Hunt, former AL governor (1987-1993), died January 30, 2009 at Trinity Medical Center in Birmingham of lung cancer. He was born June 17, 1933 in Holly...
Stephen Zetterberg, whose ill fated run for Congress in 1948 boosted Richard Nixon's political career, died January 30, 2009 at his home in Claremont, CA of...
George Sundborg, one of the crafters of Alaska's constitution, died February 7, 2009 at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle of pneumonia; he was a longtime...
Hi! I am sharing this with my Genealogy List in "Bcc:" and Ken Rudin of National Public Radio. Gary Boyd Roberts has another edition of "Ancestors of...
Jamie Clements, who, at age 20, became the youngest person ever elected to the TX house of representatives (1951-1957), died February 26, 2009 at his home in...
Harrison Richardson, former ME state senator (1973-1975), died February 26, 2009 at his home in Gorham of complications of a stroke. He was born in 1930 in...
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Hi! Ronald G. Santa, former Republican nominee for United States Representative in the First Congressional District has died. He was one of Patrick Kennedy's...
Here's a guy whose dates of birth and death are given authoritatively in various sources -- but two different dates for each! Henry Stuart Foote was a 19th...
In organizations such as clubs when elections come up AND there are more than 2 candidates for an office, what is the proportion or percentage of votes needed...
Instant-runoff voting works very well. http://www.fairvote.org/?page=19 - - - - - - - - - - Douglas Campbell aka. "That Huge White Guy in Michigan" The Green...