The 1910s: Government and Politics: Deaths
THE 1910s: GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: DEATHS
Nelson W. Aldrich, 73, conservative Republican senator from Rhode Island (1881-1911), coauthor of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909, and author of the "Aldrich Plan," which laid the groundwork for the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, 16 April 1915.
Randolph Bourne, 32, radical political writer best known for his antiwar essays published in The Seven Arts magazine, 22 December 1918.
William E. Chandler, 81, secretary of the navy (1882-1885), secretary of the Republican National Committee (1868, 1872), and Republican senator from New Hampshire (1889-1901), 30 November 1917.
Daniel De Leon, 61, leader of the Socialist Labor Party and a founder of the Industrial Workers of the World, 11 May 1914.
Stephen B. Elkins, 69, railroad and mining magnate, Republican senator from West Virginia (1895-1911), and author of the Elkins Act of 1903, which forbade railroads from offering rebates to shippers, 4 January 1911.
Charles W. Fairbanks, 66, vice president of the United States (1905-1909) under Theodore Roosevelt, 4 June 1918.
Joseph Benson Foraker, 70, conservative Republican senator from Ohio (1897-1909), 10 May 1917.
William J. Gaynor, 65, Democratic mayor of New York City (1910-1913), 12 September 1913.
Washington Gladden, 82, leader in the Social Gospel movement and supporter of the Progressive Party in 1912, 2 July 1918.
John Marshall Harlan, 78, associate justice of the Supreme Court (1877-1911), remembered for his dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, 14 October 1911.
Tom L. Johnson, 56, Democratic representative from Ohio (1891-1895) and progressive mayor of Cleveland (1901-1909), 10 April 1911.
Seth Low, 66, reformist Republican mayor of Brooklyn, New York (1882-1885), and New York City (1902-1905) and president of Columbia University (1890-1901), 17 September 1916.
Alfred Thayer Mahan, 74, naval captain, imperialist, and author of The Influence of Sea Power upon History (1890), 1 December 1914.
Alexander J. McKelway, 51, leading figure on the National Child Labor Committee (1904-1918), Washington lobbyist (1910-1918), a founder of the Southern Sociological Congress (1912), and framer of twenty social welfare planks in the 1916 Democratic platform, 16 April, 1918.
George Meyer, 59, ambassador to Italy (1900) and Russia (1905), postmaster general (1907), and secretary of the navy (1909-1913), 9 March 1918.
John Purroy Mitchel, 41, Democratic mayor of New York City (1914-1917), 6 July 1918.
John Mitchell, 49, president of the United Mine Workers (1898-1908), New York Workmen's Compensation Commissioner (1914), and chairman of the New York State Industrial Commission (1915-1919), 19 September 1919.
Edgar Gardner Murphy, 43, organizer of the Southern Society to study race relations (1900) and founder of the National Child Labor Committee, 23 June 1913.
William Rockhill Nelson, 74, journalist, editor, and political activist who helped found the Progressive Party in 1912, 13 April 1915.
Francis G. Newlands, 69, progressive representative (1893-1901) and senator (1903-1917) from Nevada, 24 December 1917.
Harrison Gray Otis, 80, conservative Republican editor and political activist, owner of the Los Angeles Times (1886-1917), 30 July 1917.
Walter Hines Page, 63, journalist and U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1913-1918) who urged U.S. intervention in World War I, 21 December 1918.
Walter Rauschenbusch, 56, progressive/socialistic leader of the Social Gospel movement, 25 July 1918.
Theodore Roosevelt, 60, Republican governor of New York (1899-1900), vice president of the United States (1901), and president of the United States (1901-1909), 6 January 1919.
Anna Howard Shaw, 72, physician, Methodist minister, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1904-1915), and head of the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense (1917-1919), 2 July 1919.
Willard D. Straight, 38, acting chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs in the U.S. State Department (1908-1909), 2 December 1918.
Booker T. Washington, 50, African American political leader, founder of Tuskegee Institute (1881), and author of Up From Slavery (1901), 14 November 1915.
Walter E. Weyl, 46, progressive journalist and economist, author of The New Democracy (1912), and a founder and editor of The New Republic (1914), 9 November 1919.
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