The Political Graveyard: January 1, 1918 (original) (raw)

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| Politicians who were born on this date: None currently in database. See: Politicians who were born on January 1 (all years), or politicians who were born in 1918 (all dates). Politicians who were married on this date: None currently in database. See: Politicians who were married on January 1 (all years), or politicians who were married in 1918 (all dates). Politicians who died on this date: None currently in database. See: Politicians who died on January 1 (all years), or politicians who died in 1918 (all dates). Centenaries and half-centenaries of the births and deaths of dead politicians on this date: 100 Years: John Ganson, born January 1, 1818; Nathan Barlow, Jr., born January 1, 1818 Office Transitions on this date: Leander B. Faber, appointed (Justice of New York Supreme Court) Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date: Age 82: Carleton Hunt; Alfred Brown Age 79: William H. Workman Age 76: William Malcolm Bunn Age 75: John P. Irish Age 71: William S. Matthews; Homer H. Somers Age 70: John W. Goff; Patrick Reilley Age 68: Thomas A. E. Weadock; John T. Alley Age 67: Lawrence Gresser; Wilber E. Hanks Age 66: Samuel W. Gould Age 65: Harry A. Richardson Age 64: George E. Chamberlain; Clinton F. Irwin Age 63: Daniel J. Ryan Age 62: Willis Sweet; Frank W. Gunsaulus Age 61: Stephen Brundidge, Jr.; Choice B. Randell Age 60: John G. Grant Age 59: George Shiras III; Jerry B. Sullivan; Remi A. Daigle Age 57: Frederick C. Stevens; John Franklin McGee Age 56: Arthur N. Ward Age 55: Harry A. Hanbury Age 54: Peter J. Danhof Age 53: Wade Keyes; Thomas J. Whitehead Age 52: John Q. Anderson Age 51: Albert S. J. Lehr Age 50: Alfred J. Murphy; Edward J. Metcalf Age 49: Montague Lessler; Jay White; Philip O'Hagan; John J. Thomas Age 48: Benjamin F. Jones; J. Maxwell Beers; Willie P. Russell Age 47: Arthur E. Bidwell Age 46: E. Bert Pullman; Gardner J. Chamberlin Age 45: John C. Ketcham; David A. Fitzgibbon; Robert Howland Fisk Age 44: Frank Knox; Henry W. Carey Age 42: Harold G. Bretherton; Mortimer W. Olds; James W. McKnight Age 38: William Woodburn; Ferdinand A. Hoyt Age 36: Martin C. Ansorge; Abigail Campbell Kawananakoa; B. A. Brigadier Age 35: William J. Donovan Age 34: Edwin C. Johnson; Lawrence W. Jackson; Charles D. Kilbourn Age 30: Albert J. Engel; Charles Carroll Glover, Jr.; J. S. McBride Age 29: Arthur Adams; August Bakeberg Age 28: Ralph Halpern Age 27: Ernest E. Ramey; Ben Moore Age 26: Peter J. De Muth; Patrick Walsh; George A. Andrews; George R. Fitzmaurice; David C. Wightman Age 25: Ernest E. Cornelius; Allen Bartman; William H. Detweiler Age 21: Louis C. Miriani; Dan W. Mouse; Henry W. Griffith; Otto Rachals Age 18: George D. O'Brien; Ralph Carter Harrison; Roland R. Faulk Age 17: J. C. Griggs Age 16: Dean P. Taylor Age 14: Louis E. Coash Age 13: Melvin Price Age 12: Gerald Sanford Levin Age 11: Harry Kraf Age 9: Barry M. Goldwater; William R. Mitchell Age 7: Stephen J. Stopczynski Age 6: Victor G. Reuther Age 5: T. Emmet Clarie; Eliot Janeway Age 1: Henry R. Kozak; Gerhard E. 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