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

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| Politicians who were born on this date: None currently in database. See: Politicians who were born on October 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 October 15 (all years), or politicians who were married in 1918 (all dates). Politicians who died on this date: Reynolds Clough — Dover, Kent County, Del. Orville W. Coolidge — Niles, Berrien County, Mich. See also: Politicians who died on October 15 (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: Charles M. Pendleton, born October 15, 1818; William McDonald, died October 15, 1818 Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date: Age 92: Daniel Dougherty Age 79: Aretas Brooks Fleming Age 76: Henry Clay Cleveland Age 65: William Wright McEwen; Charles E. Hanchet Age 62: J. F. A. Strong; William B. Murphy Age 60: Louis W. Fairfield Age 59: Josiah Quincy Age 58: Spencer B. Adams; William E. Culkin Age 55: Michael E. Burke; John Gary Evans Age 54: William R. Peck Age 53: Robert J. Thompson; Sam R. Hay Age 52: Frank E. Guernsey; William D. Upshaw; Patrick Henry Callahan; N. E. Knight Age 51: John H. Palmer; Leonidas King; Ferdinand August Geiger Age 50: John B. Johnson Age 48: Watson R. Davidson; Randolph W. Walton; Warren Olney, Jr.; Harry Clymer Age 47: Clarence Leland Holcomb; Carolyn Caldwell Age 46: Ben W. Olcott; Edith Wilson Age 45: William C. Moulton Age 42: Daniel William O'Donoghue Age 41: John E. Carroll; Ernest V. Webb; George C. Warren, Jr.; Ray L. Blanchard Age 40: David Jackson Davis Age 39: William Payne Barnum, Jr.; Anna G. Kellogg Age 38: Henry E. Ackerson, Jr.; D. Clark Joyce Age 35: Fred H. Holbrook Age 33: Max Aron Age 32: Meyer C. Ellenstein Age 31: Philip B. Fleming Age 30: William H. Sapp Age 29: Harold Carlson; J. Saxton Daniel; Earl N. Hammerquist; Wilbur A. Hunter Age 28: Homer M. Adkins; Verne G. Staten Age 27: Albert Haskell, Jr. Age 26: Fritz Norby; Katheryn S. Tarwater Age 24: Myron B. Gessaman Age 21: Joseph R. Farrington Age 20: Walt Horan Age 19: Clayton F. Jennings; Earl C. Gallagher Age 15: John R. Dethmers; Edwin W. Wade Age 14: Allan K. Grim Age 13: Ralph James Scott Age 12: Hiram L. Fong Age 11: Joseph H. McDowell; Wilbur J. Harris Age 10: John Kenneth Galbraith Age 9: Mary Louise Foust; Dorothea C. Schroeder Age 8: Edwin Oldfather Reischauer Age 7: John S. McKiernan Age 6: Carl D. Perkins; Frederic Hilbert; Herschel H. Rose Age 4: Douglas Henderson; Lawrence H. Cooke; Cecil S. Noll; Juanine S. DePaolo Age 3: Francis H. Becker; J. Sinclair Armstrong Age 2: Henry B. Richardson Age 1: Austin Hill | | | 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