Fmr. Assemblyman Wertz died in Port Jefferson, NY on 5/5/2009. ============================================ Robert Wertz, longtime GOP assemblyman, dead at 76 ...
Mayor Melton was stricken with a heart ailment upon hearing of his loss for renomination to a second term as Mayor on Tuesday and died on Thursday, 5/7/2009. ...
Reed Hansen, former ID state house representative (1984-1992, 1995-2000), died May 8, 2009 at Lilly & Syringa Care Center in Idaho Falls. He was born October...
Ralph Cappy, former PA supreme court justice (1990-2008), died May 1, 2009 of a massive heart attack at his home in Pittsburgh as he was preparing to leave...
Hi! When one looks at the religious demographics on the United States Supreme Court, I assume the new pick Sonia Sotomayor is Catholic, succeeding David H....
Hi! The Mayor of New London is a city council member and does not run for the office of Mayor in the election,. Regards, Scott Scott Bill Hirst 20 Maple...
Right, but the mayor of New London is still eligible to be listed regardless how elected or appointed. Larry On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Scott Bill Hirst...
In the new version (soon!) there will be text links to portraits from three different sources for a few hundred entries. There are just twelve such entries in...
Larry, I saw after this that Ms. Sotomayor is indeed Catholic. Hispanics tend to be Catholic but that is not necessarily always the case, and I believe a...
Hi! I live around 20 miles from New London. I am acquainted with Susette Kelo of "Kelo v. New London", Eminent Domain case. She nows lives across the Thames...
Looks pretty good. The only concern with respect to adding the small fingernail jpg's is that it might cause a page to load slowly on one with a lot of names,...
Died 6/2/2009 in Honolulu, HI. ================================================ Former Lt. Gov. Tom Gill dies By Star-Bulletin staff POSTED: 12:48 p.m. HST,...
Hi! It needs to be remembered the Hispanic background of Benjamin Cardozo, who in addition to that was Jewish appointed by Herbert Hoover during his...
Larry, Of course, a number of us if we went centuries back would likely be a descendant of various ancestral backgrounds. I know you are Jewish. Louis...
Cardozo had no HISPANIC (Spanish) background and did NOT consider himself Hispanic or Portuguese (he considered himself Jewish ethnicity) A distant ancestor...
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It's Goldwater/Lieberman all over again - jerry ... From: Lawrence Kestenbaum To: political-graveyard@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 11:24 AM ...
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"From Fortas resignation during Nixon's first term until the Clinton adminisrtation no Jew sat on the Supreme Court. Clinton appointed for his two United...
I was wrong about the individuals, but correct in that there were once two jewish justices twice before the current two. From 1932-1938 Brandis and Cardozo...
Hi! We BOTH stand corrected as I looked at Frankfurter who did succeed Cardozo. Cardozo was confirmed in 1932. He died in office in 1938. Brandeis went on...
Edward V. Hanrahan died on 6/9/2009. Note he was also the Dem. nominee in the IL-10th Congressional district in 1960 and for the 6th district in 1974. ...
Fmr. Congressman Pursell died on 6/11/2009 (in Plymouth Twp?,MI). =============================================== Former Mich. Congressman Carl Pursell dies at...
Carl D. Pursell, former U.S. Rep. (1976-1992), died June 11, 2009 in Plymouth. His funeral was at Schrader-Howell Funeral Home, Plymouth, Burial in Riverside...
William Johnson, former NH supreme court justice (1985-1999), collapsed and died May 30, 2009 while walking to his hotel room in Roanoke Rapids, NC. He was a...
Tom Byrne, former mayor of St. Paul (1966-1970), died April 5, 2009 at Our Lady of Good Counsel Home in St. Paul. He was born March 9, 1923 in St. Paul to...
6-13-2009 Wis. Democrats elect nation's youngest chair GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's Democratic Party says it now has the nation's youngest state...