The Political Graveyard: March 15, 1918 (original) (raw)

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| Politicians who were born on this date: Reynolds du Pont — Wilmington, New Castle County, Del. See also: Politicians who were born on March 15 (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 March 15 (all years), or politicians who were married in 1918 (all dates). Politicians who died on this date: Richard H. Norton — St. Louis, Mo. See also: Politicians who died on March 15 (all years), or politicians who died in 1918 (all dates). Office Transitions on this date: Francis M. Scott, resigned (Justice of New York Supreme Court) Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date: Age 81: Teman Gilbertson Age 80: Frederick C. Winkler Age 76: Charles E. Coon Age 73: Chapman L. Anderson; T. J. Ayres Age 72: Thomas Campbell Watson Age 69: Robert W. Davis; George W. Bartch Age 68: William H. Rogers Age 67: Andrew J. Rommeriam Age 66: Elbridge Hanecy Age 62: Fremont O. Phillips Age 59: George E. Eager; Eugene L. Belisle Age 58: Beryl F. Carroll Age 57: Joseph M. Devine Age 55: Tom Crawford Age 54: James F. Walsh Age 53: Gus A. Braun Age 52: John Kelsey Age 51: Harry A. Furbish Age 50: Patrick H. O'Brien Age 49: John H. Bartlett Age 48: Samuel Rutherford; Ira L. Smith; Patrick H. O'Keefe Age 47: Henry I. Emerson; Charles L. Gifford; James Brooks Ayers Robertson Age 45: Rolland H. Spaulding; Oliver D. Burden; George T. Myers Age 44: Robert M. McCracken; Harold L. Ickes; William L. Dill Age 43: Louis F. Wellmerling Age 42: Jacob Schepers; Herb Clarkson Age 41: Norman J. Gould; Lewis Einstein Age 39: George A. Chamberlain; Fred S. Berry Age 37: F. Lammot Belin; John Peter Barnes; William R. Gardner Age 34: Foss O. Eldred; Frank J. Taylor Age 31: Francis P. Matthews Age 29: Lloyd L. Black Age 28: George E. Boysen; Ralph L. Emmons Age 27: E. Ray Reed Age 24: John J. Harpel Age 23: Virgil Chapman; Kenneth O'Brien Age 22: Harold N. Elterich; Berl Boyd Age 20: Dewey Daniel Age 18: Edward H. Heller; Mary Hart Davisson Age 17: Barak T. Mattingly Age 16: James T. Blair, Jr.; O. Roy Parker Age 15: T. Jefferson Hoxie; Blair G. Woodman Age 13: Carl T. Curtis; Joseph P. Kiely Age 8: Walter H. Moeller Age 7: James C. Kirie; Ivan Allen, Jr.; LeRoy Ainsley Age 5: George C. Trumbo; Dan M. Russell, Jr. Age 4: Carl W. Thompson; Nathaniel W. Cabell Age 3: Alvin E. Heutchy Age 1: H. 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| The Political Graveyardis a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead. | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | | | | The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities. | | | | The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project. | | | | Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is notguaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here. | | | | The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/03-15.html. | | | | Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops. | | | | If you are searching for a specific named individual, try thealphabetical index of politicians. | | | Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License. | | | Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done onMarch 8, 2023. | |