The Political Graveyard: May 9, 1918 (original) (raw)

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| Politicians who were born on this date: Orville L. Freeman — Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minn. James L. Norton, Jr. — Galesburg, Knox County, Ill. Howard E. Race — Rome, Oneida County, N.Y. See also: Politicians who were born on May 9 (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 May 9 (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 May 9 (all years), or politicians who died in 1918 (all dates). Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date: Age 76: James C. C. Black; Solomon Gilman Comstock; Henry C. Warmoth; Jay Hursley Age 74: Edwin R. Ridgely Age 70: Moses J. Wentworth Age 69: Zachary Taylor Age 68: Miles B. Preston; Albert Howard Age 65: George H. Burnett Age 63: Henry A. Johnson Age 62: Frederick F. Ingram Age 60: Frederic W. Goding; John Fowler; Andrew C. Bandeen Age 59: Charles H. Darling Age 58: John L. McLaurin Age 55: Marion D. Allen Age 53: Charles W. Osenton Age 52: George Washington English Age 51: Augustus E. Ingram; Edwin Wildman; Theodore G. Cobb; Ralph E. Campbell Age 47: Susan W. FitzGerald Age 45: John J. Mitchell; Anton J. Cermak; Lois Irene Marshall Age 43: Michael C. Burns Age 41: J. Sidney Bernstein; Lewis L. Drill; George C. Butte Age 40: Max E. Neal Age 39: Henry Youngblood Age 37: Oliver S. Smith Age 33: Ralph W. Dox Age 32: Francis Biddle Age 29: Clara W. Beardsley Age 28: Horace F. Casey Age 27: Donald A. Dailey Age 26: B. Cleo Casto; Vance A. Browning; Frank Hoyt Gailor Age 25: Henry I. Dockweiler Age 23: Herbert W. Carlson Age 19: William H. Adams Age 18: Thomas E. Madden Age 16: Nelson A. Miles Age 15: Lester A. Drenk Age 14: John H. Marsalis Age 13: Carroll A. Lane; Howard Whitmore, Jr.; Marty Larsen Age 12: Alice K. Leopold Age 11: Michael J. Eagen Age 10: Henry H. Anderson Age 8: Hugh De Lacy; Philip Young Age 7: Boyd Tackett Age 1: H. Monroe Browne; Max Rafferty | | | 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