The 1920s: Government and Politics: Deaths

THE 1920s: GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: DEATHS

Elias Milton Ammons, 64, governor (D) of Colorado (1913-1915), 20 May 1925.

Simeon Eben Baldwin, 86, governor (D) of Connecticut (1911-1915), associate justice (1893-1907) and chief justice (1907-1910) of Connecticut's Supreme Court, 30 January 1927.

Richard Achilles Ballinger, 63, secretary of the interior (1909-1911) under President William Howard Taft, 6 June 1922.

Thomas Walter Bickett, 42, governor (D) of North Carolina (1917-1921), 29 December 1921.

Horace Boies, 95, governor (D) of Iowa (1890-1894), 4 April 1923.

William Jennings Bryan, 65, representative (D) from Nebraska (1891—1895), Democratic presidential candidate (1896, 1900, 1908), 26 July 1925.

Joseph Gurney "Uncle Joe" Cannon, 90, representative (R) from Illinois (1873-1891, 1893-1913, 1915-1923), Speaker of the House (1903-1911), ousted as speaker for using autocratic methods to control House procedure, 12 November 1926.

Joseph Maull Carey, 79, senator (R) from Wyoming (1890-1895), governor (D) of Wyoming (1911- 1915), 5 February 1924.

George Earle Chamberlain, 74, governor (D) of Oregon (1903-1909), senator (1909-1921), 9 July 1928.

James Beauchamp "Champ" Clark, 70, representative (D) from Missouri (1893-1895, 1897-1921), Speaker of the House (1911-1919), candidate for 1912 Democratic presidential nomination, 2 March 1921.

William Andrews Clark, 86, senator (D) from Montana (1899-1900, 1901-1907), mining tycoon, 2 March 1925.

LeBaron Bradford Colt, 78, senator (R) from Rhode Island (1913-1924), 18 August 1924.

William Rufus Day, 64, secretary of state under President William McKinley (1898), judge of U.S. circuit court of appeals (1899-1903), U.S. Supreme Court associate justice (1903-1922), 9 July 1923.

Eugene Victor Debs, 70, Socialist activist, organizer of Social Democratic party of America (1897), Socialist presidential candidate (1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1920), imprisoned (1918-1921) for violating Espionage Act, 20 October 1926.

Edwin Denby, 58, representative (R) from Michigan (1905-1911), secretary of the navy (1921-1924) during President Warren G. Harding's administration, tainted by the Teapot Dome scandal, resigned in February 1924, 8 February 1929.

Chauncey Mitchell Depew, 93, president (1885-1899) and chairman of the board (1899-1928) of New York Central Railroad, senator (R) from New York (1899-1911), delegate to every Republican National Convention from 1888 to 1924, 5 April 1928.

Sanford Ballard Dole, 82, president of the Republic of Hawaii (1894-1900), first governor of the Territory of Hawaii (1900-1903), 9 June 1926.

Henry Algernon duPont, 88, U.S. army officer (1861-1875) serving through Civil War, senator (R) from Delaware (1906-1917), associate of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Sc Company gunpowder manufacturer, 31 December 1926.

Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, 75, governor (D) of Michigan (1913-1917), senator (1923-1928), 23 March 1928.

Murphy James Foster, 72, governor (D) of Louisiana (1892-1900), senator (1901-1913), 12 June 1921.

David Rowland Francis, 76, governor (D) of Missouri (1889-1893), secretary of the interior (1885-1889) under President Grover Cleveland, promoter and official of the Louisana Purchase Exposition (1903-1904), ambassador to Russia (1916-1917) during President Woodrow Wilson's administration, 15 January 1927.

Lymanjudson Gage, 90, secretary of the treasury (1897-1902) during the McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt administrations, staunch defender of the gold standard, 26 January 1927.

Helen Hamilton Gardener, 72, woman's suffrage activist, first female member of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, 26 July 1925.

Martin Henry Glynn, 53, representative (D) from New York (1899-1901), governor (1913-1915), 14 December 1924.

Samuel Gompers, 74, labor leader, organizer (1886), with others, and president (1886-1894, 1896-1924) of American Federation of Labor, member of Council of National Defense (1917) and Commission on International Labor Legislation at Treaty of Versailles (1919), 13 December 1924.

Frank R. Gooding, 68, governor (R) of Idaho, (1905-1909), senator (1921-1928), 24 June 1928.

Warren Gamaliel Harding, 57, senator from Ohio (1915-1921), twenty-ninth U.S. president (1921-1923), 2 August 1923.

Dudley Mays Hughes, 78, representative (D) from Georgia (1909-1917), leader of agricultural interests, 20 January 1927.

Claude Kitchin, 54, representative (D) from North Carolina (1901-1923), 31 May 1923.

William Walton Kitchin, 48, representative (D) from North Carolina (1897-1909), governor (1909-1913), 9 November 1924.

Philander Chase Knox, 68, attorney general (R, 1901-1904) during President Theodore Roosevelt's administration who drew up legislation creating U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor (1903), senator from Pennsylvania (1904-1909, 1917-1921), secretary of state (1909-1913), under President Taft, 12 October 1921.

Edwin Fremont Ladd, 65, senator (R) from North Dakota (1921-1925), 22 June 1925.

Robert Marion La Follette, 70, representative (R) from Wisconsin (1885-1891), governor (1901-1906), senator (1906—1925), conservationist who helped launch senatorial investigation into Teapot Dome oil-reserve leasing, Progressive Party presidential candidate in 1924, 18 June 1925.

Robert Lansing, 64, secretary of state (D) during President Wilson's administration (1915-1920), arranged purchase (1917) of Danish West Indies (later named Virgin Islands), 30 October 1928.

Robert Todd Lincoln, 82, son of Abraham Lincoln, secretary of war (1881-1885) during President James GarfiekTs administration, minister to Great Britain (1889-1893), 26 July 1926.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh Sr., 65, representative (R) from Minnesota (1907-1917), 24 May 1924.

Henry Cabot Lodge, 74, representative (R) from Massachusetts (1887-1893), senator (1893-1924), 9 November 1924.

Meyer London, 54, labor leader, founder (1899-1901), with others, of Socialist party of America, representative (Socialist) from New York (1915-1919, 1921-1923), 6 June 1926.

Martin Barnaby Madden, 73, representative (R) from Illinois (1905-1928), 27 April 1928.

James Robert Mann, 66, representative (R) from Illinois (1897-1922), 30 November 1922.

Thomas Riley Marshall, 71, governor (D) of Indiana (1909-1913), vice president of the United States under Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921), 1 June 1925.

Samuel Walker McCall, 72, representative (R) from Massachusetts (1893-1913), governor (1916-1919), 4 November 1923.

Medill McCormick, 47, representative (R) from Illinois (1917-1919), senator (1919-1925), 25 February 1925.

Frank Joseph McNulty, 53, representative (D) from New Jersey (1923-1925), labor leader, 26 May 1926.

Thomas Chipman McRae, 77, representative (D) from Arkansas (1887-1903), governor (1921-1925), 2 June 1929.

Edwin Thomas Meredith, 51, secretary of agriculture (D, 1920-1921) during President Wilson's administration, 17 June 1928.

William W. Morrow, 86, representative (R) from California (1885-1891), federal judge (1891-1923), 24 July 1929.

Levi Parsons Morton, 96, representative (R) from New York (1879-1881), U.S. minister to France (1881-1885), vice president of the United States under Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893), governor of New York (1895-1897), 16 May 1920.

Knute Nelson, 80, representative (R) from Minnesota (1883-1889), governor (1893-1895), senator (1895-1923), 28 April 1923.

Alton Brooks Parker, 73, Democratic presidential candidate in 1904, 10 May 1926.

Austin Peay, 51, governor (D) of Tennessee (1923-1927), 2 October 1927.

Boies Penrose, 61, senator (R) from Pennsylvania (1897-1921), 31 December 1921.

Richard Franklin Pettigrew, 78, first senator (R) from South Dakota (1889-1901), 5 October 1926.

Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, 84, son of a white planter and Negro slave who organized volunteer Negro company for service with Union army in the Civil War (1862-1863), Louisiana Reconstruction politician, lieutenant governor (1871), acting governor (1872-1873), elected as U.S. representative (1872) and senator (1873) but was not seated, 21 December 1921.

Terence Vincent Powderly, 75, labor leader, general master workman for Knights of Labor (1883-1893), U.S. commissioner general of immigration (1897—1902) under President McKinley, chief of Division of Information in Bureau of Immigration (1907-1921), 24 June 1924.

Samuel Moffett Ralston, 67, governor (D) of Indiana (1913-1917), senator (1923-1925), 14 October 1925.

Willard Saulsbury Jr., 55, senator (D) from Delaware (1913-1919), 20 February 1927.

John Franklin Shafroth, 67, representative (D) from Colorado (1895-1905), governor (1909-1913), senator (1913-1919), 20 February 1922.

William Graves Sharp, 63, representative (D) from Ohio (1909-1915), ambassador to France during World War I, 17 November 1922.

Isaac Ruth Sherwood, 90, representative (D) from Ohio (1907-1921, 1923-1925), 15 October 1925.

Harry Skinner, 73, representative (Populist) from North Carolina (1895-1899), 19 May 1929.

Walter Inglewood Smith, 59, representative (R) from Iowa (1901-1911), served on Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (1911-1922), 27 January 1922.

William Cameron Sproul, 57, governor (R) of Pennsylvania (1919-1923), 21 March 1928.

Watson Carvosso Squire, 88, governor of the Territory of Washington (1884-1887), senator (R) from Washington (1889-1897), 7 June 1926.

Edward Reilly Stettinius, 60, partner (1916-1925) in J. P. Morgan & Co., chief purchasing agent in United States for the allied governments during World War I, 3 September 1925.

Joseph Kemp Toole, 77, first governor (D) of Montana (1889-1893, 1901-1908), 11 March 1929.

Lawrence Davis Tyson, 68, senator (D) from Tennessee (1925-1929), 24 August 1929.

Oscar Wilder Underwood, 66, representative (D) from Alabama (1895-1896, 1897-1915), senator (1915-1927), chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means (1911-1915), 25 January 1929.

Henry Cantwell Wallace, 58, secretary of agriculture (R, 1921-1924) in Harding and Coolidge administrations, 25 October 1924.

Francis E. Warren, 85, senator (R) from Wyoming (1890-1893, 1895-1929), 24 November 1929.

Thomas Edward Watson, representative (Populist) from Georgia (1891-1893), Populist nominee for vice president in 1896 and president in 1904, senator (1921-1922), publisher of violent segregationist and anti-Semitic newspaper Weekly Jeffersonian, 26 September 1922.

John Wingate Weeks, 66, representative (R) from Massachusetts (1905-1913), senator (1913-1919), secretary of war (1921-1925) in Harding and Coolidge administrations, 12 July 1926.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 67, twenty-eighth U.S. president (1913-1921), 3 February 1924.

Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, 66, military governor of Cuba (1899-1902), U.S. army chief of staff (1910-1914), governor general of the Philippines (1921-1927), candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 1916 and 1920, 7 August 1927.

Luke Edward Wright, 76, secretary of war during President Theodore Roosevelt's administration, 17 November 1922.