The Political Graveyard: January 27, 1908 (original) (raw)

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| Politicians who were born on this date: None currently in database. See: Politicians who were born on January 27 (all years), or politicians who were born in 1908 (all dates). Politicians who were married on this date: None currently in database. See: Politicians who were married on January 27 (all years), or politicians who were married in 1908 (all dates). Politicians who died on this date: None currently in database. See: Politicians who died on January 27 (all years), or politicians who died in 1908 (all dates). Centenaries and half-centenaries of the births and deaths of dead politicians on this date: 100 Years: Ezra Darby, died January 27, 1808 50 Years: John Henry Hobart Haws, died January 27, 1858; Freeborn G. Jewett, died January 27, 1858; Ira Kidder, died January 27, 1858 Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date: Age 86: Solon F. Frary Age 79: John P. Jones Age 74: Lorenzo Crounse Age 73: Louis F. Payn Age 72: Antoine J. Murat Age 71: Timothy Edward Howard Age 70: Thomas Fitch Age 69: John C. Black; James R. Howe Age 64: Benjamin F. Howell Age 62: Luther E. Hall Age 60: Robert W. Miers Age 58: Samuel Gompers Age 57: James P. Conner Age 55: Ira D. McVicker Age 54: Loyal Edwin Knappen Age 52: John J. Lentz; Frank D. Mead Age 50: Daniel J. Daley Age 48: William J. Adams; Victor J. Botto Age 44: William Busse; John C. Rice; Andrew A. Adams Age 43: William Harvey McSurely; George N. Ifft Age 42: George H. Miller Age 39: William E. Sweet Age 37: Ernest C. Engle Age 36: Arthur Bruce Williams; Learned Hand; Marcy B. Darnall Age 35: Anna Ickes Age 34: Ernest H. L. Mummenhoff Age 33: James A. Meredith Age 31: James A. Chambers Age 30: Jackson K. Dixon; Ralph Goodhue; Edgar R. Staats Age 28: Oscar G. Johnston Age 27: Irving N. Linnell Age 26: William E. Lee Age 25: Warren E. Beck; Albert D. Troxel; Charles Guy Briggle; James J. Alford Age 23: Frank D. Fitzgerald Age 21: Gordon A. Hanson Age 19: Hooker A. Doolittle Age 17: Ward A. Withey Age 15: Raymond C. Green Age 13: Hooper S. Miles Age 12: Perry B. Jackson Age 11: H. Carl Andersen Age 10: Georgia Neese Gray Age 9: Allen W. Sandidge; Robert K. Christenberry Age 6: Ed Gossett Age 5: Eugene F. Black; Carl Andrew Weinman Age 4: R. Borden Reams Age 3: John J. Pelter Age 2: Masaji Marumoto; Burris C. Jackson Age 1: Charles Allen Stewart | | | 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