The 1950s: Government and Politics: Deaths

THE 1950s: GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: DEATHS

Ralph Henry Ackerman, 64, U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic (1948-1952), 12 January 1957.

Warren R. Austin, 78, U.S. Ambasador to the United Nations (1946-1954) October 1956.

William Augustus Ayres, 84, congressman (D.) from Kansas (1915-1921, 1923-1935), and member of Federal Trade Commission (1934-1951), 17 February 1952.

Robert M. Barnett, 57, U.S. government personnel expert and liaison officer with the International Labor Organization, 1 January 1953.

Roy Hood Beeler, 72, Tennessee attorney general since 1932, 23 September 1954.

Charles Wayland Brooks, 59, U.S. senator from Illinois (R) from 1939-1948, 14 January 1957.

Joseph R. Bryson, 60, congressman (D) from South Carolina, 10 March 1953.

William Thomas Byrne, 75, congressman (D.) from New York (1935-1951), 27 January 1952.

David D. Caldwell, 83, special assistant to the U.S. attorney general, specialist in government procedure, 4 March 1953.

Ralph Henry Cameron, 89, U.S. senator (R) from Arizona (1921-1927) and leader in Arizona's drive for statehood while a territorial delegate, 12 February 1953.

Raymond J. Cannon, 60, congressman (D.) from Wisconsin (1932-1938), 25 November 1951.

Virgil M. Chapman, 55, senator (D.) from Kentucky (1948-1951), 8 March 1951.

Dr. Philander P. Claxton, 94, U.S. commissioner of education (1911-1921), founder of the University of Tennessee department of education, 12 January 1957.

Edward Eugene Cox, 72, congressman (D.) from Georgia (1925-1951), 24 December 1952.

John William Davis, 81, Democratic presidential nominee in 1924 and ambassador to Britain (1918-1921), 24 March 1955.

Gen. Charles Gates Dawes, vice-president under Calvin Coolidge, and winner of 1925 Nobel Peace Prize, 23 April 1951.

John J. Dempsey, 78, representative (D) from New Mexico and former under secretary of the Interior (1941-1942), 11 March 1958.

Martin Patrick Durkin , 61, secretary of labor (1953) and president of the United Assodiation of Plumbers and Steamfitters, AFL, 13 November 1955.

Charles A. Eaton, 84, representative (R) from New Jersey (1925-1953), 23 January 1953.

Robert B. Ennis , 71, Maryland State Central Committee chairman (D), 18 February 1953.

Frank Fellows, 61, congressman (R.) from Maine (1941-1951), 27 August 1951

Judge Jerome N. Frank, 67, judge of U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals (1941-1957); Securities and Exchange Commission chairman (1939-1941), 13 January 1957.

Sen. Perer Goelet Gerry , 78, congressman (D) for twenty-six years from Rhode Island and grandson of Elbridge Gerry, 31 October 1957.

Dwight H. Green, 61, governor (R) of Illinois (1940- 1948) and federal prosecutor who sent Al Capone to jail in 1931, 20 February 1958.

Alexander J. Groesbeck, 79, governor of Michigan (R) from 1921-1927, 10 March 1953.

Chalmers Hamill, 70, former head of the Justice Department's Small Business Unit, 4 November 1954.

Leland Harrison, 68, minister to Switzerland (1937-1947), and assistant secretary of State (1922-1927), 7 June 1951.

Charles Belknap Henderson, 81, member of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and chairman (1941-1947); U.S. senator from Nevada (D), 1918-1921, 8 November 1954.

Samuel Francis Hobbs, 64, congressman (D.) from Alabama (1935-1951), 31 May 1952.

Rush Drew Holt, 49, Senator (D) from West Virginia (1935-1940), 8 February 1955.

Lansing W. Hoyt, 69, Republican party leader who backed Gen, Douglas MacArthur for president in 1944, 1948, and 1952, 12 January 1954.

Edward Eyre Hunt, 67, chief of U.S. State Department Protective Services Division since 1947, 5 March 1953.

Harold LeClaire Ickes, 77, secretary of the interior (1933-1946), 3 February 1952.

Pete Jarman, 62, ambassador to Australia (1949-1953) and congressman (D) from Alabama (1937-1949), 17 February 1955.

Adm. C. Turner Joy, 61, chief negotiator for the United Nations in Korea, 6 June 1956.

John Kee, 71 congressman (D.) from West Virginia (1933-1951), 8 May 1951.

Frank B. Keefe, 64, congressman (R). from Wisconsin (1938-1950), 5 February 1952.

Harley M. Kilgore, 63, chairman of the senate judiciary committee and three-term congressman (D) from West Virginia, 28 February 1954.

Isabella Greenway King, 67, congressman (D) from Arizona (1933-1936), 18 December 1953.

Richard Miflin Kleeberg, Sr., 67, congressman (R) from Alabama (1937-1949), 17 February 1955.

George S. Long, 74, representative (D) from Louisiana and brother of Huey P. Long, 22 March 1958.

Francis Patrick Matthews, 65, secretary of the navy (1949-1951), and ambassador to Ireland, 18 October 1952.

Joseph Raymond McCarthy, 48, senator (R) from Wisconsin, 2 May 1957.

John McDowell, 55, representative (R) from Pennsylvania who instigated House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of Alger Hill, 11 December 1957.

Joseph V. McGee, 66, acting mayor of New York in 1932 while James J. Walker was being investigated, 28 January 1956.

Kenneth McKellar, 88, forty-one-year representative (D) of Tennessee in Congress, 25 October 1957.

John F. Montgomery, 76, U.S. minister to Hungary (1933-1941), 7 November 1954.

Harold B. Murchie, 64, Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court, 7 March 1953.

William Henry "Alfalfa Bill Murray, 86,1932 presidential contender, 15 October 1956.

Mathew M. Neely, 83, Senator (D) from West Virginia who charged that President Eisenhower began going to church only after his election, 18 January 1958.

David K. Niles, 62, special administrative assistant to presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 28 September 1952.

Gilbert Mason Oweltt, 64, state senator and powerful force in Pennsylvania politics, 24 January 1957.

Paul L. Patterson, governor (R) of Oregon, 31 January 1956.

Thomas Wharton Phillips, Jr., 81, representative (R) from Pennsylvania (1923-1927), 2 January 1956.

Chauncey W. Reed, congressman from Illinois for thirty-two years and ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, 20 February 1956,

David Aiken Reed, 72, U.S. senator (R) from Pennsylvania (1922-1935), former chairman of the Senate-Military Affairs Committee, 10 February 1953.

Adolph Joachim Sabath, 86, congressman (D) from Illinois (1907-1952), 6 November 1952.

Bertrand Snell, 87, representative (R) from New York (1931-1938) and former minority leader of the house, 2 February 1958.

Paulina Longworth Sturm, 31, granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt known as the "St. Valentine Baby" of Alice Roosevelt and Ohio congressman Nicholas Longworth, 27 January 1957.

Robert A. Taft, 63, senator (R) from Ohio (1939-1953) and Republican presidential nominee in 1948 and 1952, 31 July 1953.

Elbert D. Thomas, 69, U.S. high commissioner for ninety-six groups of United Nations trust territory islands in the Pacific, and U.S. senator (D) from Utah (1932-1950), 11 February 1953.

William D. Upshaw, 86, congressman (D) from Georgia (1919-1927 and Prohibition Party presidential candidate in 1932, 21 November 1952.

Arthur T. Vanderbilt, 68, New Jersey political activist (R) before he was appointed to United States Supreme Court in 1948, 24 June 1957.

George Wadsworth, 64, advisor to Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower on the Middle East, 5 March 1958.

Kenneth S. Wherry, 59, senator (R.), from Nebraska (1943-), 29 November 1951.

Roy O. Woodruff, 76, congressman (R) from Michigan (1913-1915, 1921-1952), 12 February 1953.