The Political Graveyard: August 27, 1920 (original) (raw)

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| Politicians who were born on this date: Alfonso J. Cervantes — St. Louis, Mo. Frank F. Fasi — East Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. George E. Paine — Islip, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y. See also: Politicians who were born on August 27 (all years), or politicians who were born in 1920 (all dates). Politicians who were married on this date: None currently in database. See: Politicians who were married on August 27 (all years), or politicians who were married in 1920 (all dates). Politicians who died on this date: Marion Cannon — near Ventura, Ventura County, Calif. See also: Politicians who died on August 27 (all years), or politicians who died in 1920 (all dates). Centenaries and half-centenaries of the births and deaths of dead politicians on this date: 50 Years: Albert Smith, died August 27, 1870 Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date: Age 81: William L. Kelly; Henry C. McArthur Age 78: William Wade Dudley Age 77: Townsend A. Ely; Charles P. Hogan Age 74: Frederick F. Sovereign Age 71: George W. Stone Age 68: James H. Pound Age 67: Dorsey W. Shackleford Age 66: M. Warley Platzek Age 64: Thomas B. Valentine Age 61: Daniel J. McGillicuddy; Frank O. Smith Age 59: Edward B. Gaylord Age 58: William M. K. Olcott Age 57: William R. Painter Age 56: William H. Heald; Peter Anderson Age 55: Charles G. Dawes Age 54: Frederick M. Davenport; Charles S. Baxter; William B. Mathews Age 52: William Henry Sawtelle Age 51: Richard H. Mitchell; George A. Bacon Age 50: Peter Norbeck Age 49: Harvey Feldmeier Age 48: Andrew J. Hickey Age 46: Herbert W. Gowdy Age 45: James F. McLam Age 44: Arturo Pallais Age 43: Charles K. Moser Age 42: Henry M. Kimball; Richard B. Smith; Harvey W. Eaton; Owen Johnson; J. H. Martin; Thomas Clark Trimble III Age 41: Otis F. Glenn; Robert L. Vann Age 40: Walter Frederick Jahncke Age 37: Campbell E. Beaumont Age 36: Albert R. Hall; Nels H. Smith; Albert C. Benninger Age 35: George Hampel Age 33: Charles A. Jones; William T. Lovins Age 32: Roy H. Brigham Age 31: Benjamin H. Littleton; Guernsey T. Cross; Gladys S. McKeigue Age 30: Donald C. McDowell Age 29: Doris M. Barnes Age 28: Charles Fahy Age 26: C. W. Johnson, Jr. Age 25: Wayne W. Bayless Age 24: Noble W. Lee Age 22: J. L. Pilcher Age 21: Frank J. Becker; Webster B. Todd Age 20: Ralph W. Wallace Age 18: Wager F. Clunis Age 17: Edson V. Root, Jr.; Carl A. Bamberger Age 16: Fred A. Young; Stewart A. Wright Age 13: Ralston Westlake Age 12: Lyndon B. Johnson Age 11: Sidney R. Yates; Alfred William Brunt Age 10: J. Fife Symington, Jr. Age 9: John Q. Tilson, Jr.; Verner M. Ingram Age 5: Rembert C. Dennis Age 4: Victor A. Miller Age 3: Harold V. Maull Age 2: Patience Latting | | | 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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/1920/08-27.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. | |