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THE 1960s: GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: DEATHS

Henry Fountain Ashurst, 87, senator (D) from Arizona (1912-1941), 31 May 1962.

Warren R. Austin, 85, representative to the U.N. Security Council (1947-1953) and senator (R) from Vermont (1931-1946), 25 December 1962.

Howard H. Baker, 61, representative (R) from Tennessee (1951-1964), 7 January 1964.

John F. Baldwin, Jr., 50, representative (R) from California (1955-1966), 10 March 1966.

Graham A. Barden, 70, representative (D) from North Carolina (1935-1961), 29 January 1967.

William H. Bates, 52, representative (R) from Massachusetts (1950-1969), 22 June 1969.

George H. Bender, 64, senator (R) from Ohio (1954-1967) and seven term congressman (1939-1949, 1951-1954), 18 June 1961.

John B. Bennett, 60, representative (R) from Michigan (1947-1964), 9 August 1964.

Anthony Drexel Biddle, 64, ambassador to Spain (1961); previously served as minister to Norway (1935-1937) and ambassador to Poland (1937-1939), 13 November 1961.

Herbert C. Bonner, 74, representative (D) from North Carolina (1940-1965), 7 November 1965.

Owen Brewster, 73, Republican representative (1935-1941) and senator (1941-1953) from Maine, 25 December 1961.

Styles Bridges, 63, senator (R) from New Hampshire (1937-1961), 26 November 1961.

Overton Brooks, 63, representative (D) from Louisiana (1937-1961), 16 September 1961.

Clarence J. Brown, 72, representative (R) from Ohio (1939-1965), 23 August 1965.

Norris Brown, 96, senator (R) from Nebraska (1907-1913), 5 January 1960.

Wilbur M. Brucker, 74, general counsel of the Defense Department (1954) and secretary of the army (19551961), 28 October 1968.

Harry F. Byrd, 79, senator (D) from Virginia (1933-1965), 20 October 1966.

Cavendish W. Cannon, 67, ambassador to Yugoslavia (1947), Greece (1953), and Morocco (1956), 7 October 1962.

Clarence Cannon, 85, representative (D) from Missouri (1923-1964), 12 May 1964.

Francis Higbee Case, 63, Republican representative (1937-1951) and senator (1951-1962) from South Dakota, 22 June 1962.

Whittaker Chambers, 60, confessed former Communist spy whose 1950 testimony indicted Alger Hiss, 9 July 1961.

Dennis Chavez, 74, Democratic representative (19311935) and senator (1935-1962) of New Mexico, 18 November 1962.

Tom Connally, 86, Democratic representative (1917-1929) and senator (1929-1953) from Texas, 28 October 1963.

Eugene Dennis, 56, American Communist Party chairman and one of twelve American Communists sentenced under the Smith Act in 1948, 31 January 1961.

Everett McKinley Dirksen, 73, Republican representative (1933-1949) and senator (1951-1969) from Illinois, 7 September 1969.

Clyde Gilman Doyle, 75, representative (D) from California (1945-1947, 1949-1963), 13 March 1963.

Allen W. Dulles, 75, OSS leader in Switzerland during World War II; helped set up the CIA and was deputy director (1950-1953) and director (1953-1961), 30 January 1969.

Henry C. Dworshak, 67, senator (R) of Idaho (1946-1962), 23 July 1962.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 78, president of the United States (1953-1961), commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II, 28 March 1969.

Douglas H. Elliott, 39, representative (R) from Pennsylvania (1960), 19 June 1960.

Clair Engle, 52, Democratic representative (1943-1959) and senator (1959-1964) from California, 30 July 1964.

Robert A. Everett, 53, representative (D) from Tennessee (1958-1969), 26 January 1969.

John E. Fogarty, 53, representative (D) from Rhode Island (1941-1944, 1945-1967), 10 January 1967.

Felix Frankfurter, 82, associate justice of the Supreme Court (1939-1962), 22 February 1965.

Leon H. Gavin, 70, representative (R) from Pennsylvania (1943-1963), 14 September 1963.

Theodore Francis Green, 98, senator (D) from Rhode Island (1937-1961), 19 May 1966.

William J. Green, Jr., 53, representative (D) from Pennsylvania (1945-1947, 1949-1963), 21 December 1963.

Joseph Clark Grew, 84, ambassador to Japan (19311941); warned of plans of attack on Pearl Harbor one year prior, 25 May 1965.

David M. Hall, 41, representative (D) from North Carolina (1959-1960), 29 January 1960.

Edward J. Hart, 68, representative (D) from New Jersey (1935-1955), 20 April 1961.

Fred A. Hartley, Jr., 66, representative (R) from New Jersey (1929-1949), 11 May 1969.

Thomas C. Hennings, Jr., 57, Democratic representative (1935-1940) and senator (1951-1960) from Missouri, 13 September 1960.

Christian A. Herter, 71, representative (R) from Massachusetts (1943-1953), undersecretary (1957-1958), and secretary of state (1959-60), 30 December 1966.

Clare E. Hoffman, 92, representative (R) from Michigan (1935-1963), 3 November 1967.

Elmer J. Holland, 74, representative (D) from Pennsylvania (1956-1968), 9 August 1968.

Julius C. Holmes, 69, minister to Great Britain (1948-1953); minister to Morocco (1955-1956); special assistant to secretary of state for NATO affairs (1956-1959); consul general in Hong Kong (1959-1961); ambassador to Iran (1961-1965), 14 July 1968.

Herbert Clark Hoover, 90, president of the United States (1929-1932), 20 October 1964.

Louis A. Johnson, 75, assistant secretary of war (19371940), secretary of defense (1949-1950), 24 April 1966.

Olin D. Johnston, 68, senator (D) from South Carolina (1945-1965), 18 April 1965.

Estes Kefauver, 60, Democratic representative (1949) and senator (1949-1963) from Tennessee, 10 August 1963.

John F. Kennedy, 46, Democratic representative (1947-1953) and senator (1953-1960) from Massachusetts, president of the United States (1961-1963), 22 November 1963.

Robert F. Kennedy, 42, attorney general (1961-1964), senator (D) from New York (1965-1968), 6 June 1968.

Robert S. Kerr, 66, senator (D) from Oklahoma (1949-1967), 1 January 1963.

Martin Luther King, Jr., 39, civil rights leader, founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Nobel Peace Prize winner (1964), 4 April 1968.

Clarence F. Lea, 89, representative (D) from California (1917-1949), 20 June 1964.

Earl Kemp Long, 65, governor (D) of Louisiana. (1939-1940, 1948-1950, 1956-1960), 5 September 1960.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, 84, supreme Allied commander in the southwest Pacific in World War II, commander of U.S. forces in Korea, military governor of occupied Japan (1945-1951), 5 April 1964.

Russell Vernon Mack, 68, representative (R) "from Washington (1947-1960), 28 March 1960.

Malcom X, 40, Black Muslim leader, 21 February 1965.

Joseph W. Martin, Jr., 83, representative (R) from Massachusetts (1925-1966), minority leader (1939-1959), speaker (1946-1948, 1952-1954), 6 March 1968.

J. Howard McGrath, 62, attorney general (1949-1952), 2 September 1966.

Pat McNamara, 71, senator (D) from Michigan (1955-1966), 30 April 1966.

Clem Miller, 45, representative (D) from California (1959-1962), 7 October 1962.

Henry Morgenthau, Jr., 75, secretary of the treasury (1934-1945), 6 February 1967.

Walter M. Mumma, 70, representative (R) from Pennsylvania (1951-1961), 25 February 1961.

Walter Norblad, 56, representative (R). from Oregon (1946-1964), 20 September 64.

W. F. Norrell, 64, representative (D) from Arkansas (1939-1961), 15 February 1961.

Hjalmar C. Nygaard, 57, representative (R) from North Dakota, 18 July 1963.

Thomas J. O'Brien, 85, representative (D) from Illinois (1933-1939, 1943-1964), 14 April 1964.

Joseph C. O'Mahoney, 78, senator (D) from Wyoming (1934-1953, 1954-1961), 1 December 1962.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, 62, nuclear physicist, 18 February 1967.

Richard C. Patterson, Jr., 80, assistant secretary and undersecretary of commerce (19381939); ambassador to Yugoslavia (1944-1946), Guatemala (1947), Switzerland (1951), 30 September 1966.

Frances Perkins, 83, secretary of labor (1933-1945), 14 May 1965.

George Walbridge Perkins, 64, assistant secretary of state for European affairs (1949-1953) and ambassador to NATO (1955-1957), 10 January 1960.

Joe R. Pool, 57, representative (D) from Texas (1963-1968), 14 July 1968.

Louis C. Rabaut, 74, representative (D) from Michigan (1935-1947, 1949-1961), 12 November 1961.

Sam Rayburn, 79, representative (D) from Texas (1913-1961) had served 48 years 258 days continuously as a representative and 17 years 62 days (twice interrupted) as Speaker of the House, 16 November 1961.

B. Carroll Reece, 71, representative (R) from Tennessee (1921-1931, 1933-1947, 1951-1967), 19 March 1961.

Donald Randall Richberg, 79, coauthored the National Recovery Act while in the Roosevelt Administration, 27 November 1960.

John J. Riley, 66, representative (D) from South Carolina (1945-1949, 1951-1962), 2 January 1962.

Edith Nourse Rogers, 79, representative (R) from Massachusetts (1925-1960), 10 September 1960.

Daniel J. Ronan, 55, representative (D) from Illinois (1965-1969), 13 August 1969.

Eleanor Roosevelt, 78, first lady (1933-1945), delegate to the U. N. General Assembly (1945-1952, 1961-1962), 7 November 1962.

Andrew F. Schoeppel, 67, senator (R) from Kansas (1949-1962), 21 January 1962.

Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, 65, ambassador to the Soviet Union (1946-1949); director of the CIA (1950-1953); undersecretary of state (1953-1954), 9 August 1961.

Brent Spence, 92, representative (D) from Kentucky (1931-1963), 18 September 1967.

Charles Clarkson Stelle, 53, chief delegate to the Disarmament Conference in Geneva (1960-1963), 11 June 1964.

Adlai E. Stevenson, 65, ambassador to the United Nations (1961-1965), Democratic presidential candidate (1952, 1956), 14 July 1965.

John Taber, 85, representative (R) from New York (1923-1962), 22 November 1965.

Albert Thomas, 67, representative (D) from Texas (1937-1966), 15 February 1966.

T. Ashton Thompson, 49, representative (D) from Louisiana (1953-1965), 1 July 1965.

Keith Thomson, 42, representative (R) from Wyoming (1955-1960), 9 December 1960.

Millard D. Tydings, 70, Democratic representative (1923-1927) and senator (1927-1951) from Maryland, 9 February 1961.

John M. Vorys, 72, representative (R) from Ohio (1939-1959), 25 August 1968.

Henry Agard Wallace, 77, vice president (1941-1944), 18 November 1965.

Francis E. Walter, 69, representative (D) from Pennsylvania (1933-1963), 31 May 1963.

Joseph Nye Welch, 69, defense lawyer in the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, 6 October 1960.

Sumner Welles, 69, undersecretary of state (1937-1943), 24 September 1961.

Claude Raymond Wichard, 75, secretary of agriculture (1940-1945), 29 April 1967.

Alexander Wiley, 84, senator (R) from Wisconsin (1939-1963), 26 October 1968.

Charles E. Wilson, 71, secretary of defense (1953-1957), 26 September 1961.

Jesse P. Wolcott, 75, representative (R) from Michigan (1931-1957), 28 January 1969.

J. Arthur Younger, 74, representative (R) from California (1953-1967), 20 June 1967.

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