The Political Graveyard: May 7, 1929 (original) (raw)

PoliticalGraveyard.com
The Political Graveyard: A Database of American History

| Politicians who were born on this date: None currently in database. See: Politicians who were born on May 7 (all years), or politicians who were born in 1929 (all dates). Politicians who were married on this date: None currently in database. See: Politicians who were married on May 7 (all years), or politicians who were married in 1929 (all dates). Politicians who died on this date: Thomas H. Harvey See also: Politicians who died on May 7 (all years), or politicians who died in 1929 (all dates). Local Elections on this date: California Mayor: Los Angeles Indiana Mayor: East Chicago; Whiting Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date: Age 87: S. M. Stockslager Age 75: Jonathan P. Edwards Age 74: John A. Bingham Age 72: William A. MacCorkle; Charles L. Pack Age 68: Frank C. Partridge; Louis P. Rannow Age 67: Allen L. Shomo Age 66: Duncan A. Cameron Age 62: Eugene D. Bishop Age 60: Frank Frantz Age 59: George E. Hinman; Marshall Langhorne Age 56: Elmer E. Todd; Joseph X. Strand Age 54: Merlin Wiley; Saner C. Bell Age 53: Guy W. Bailey; James H. Carroll; Benjamin Richard Wall Age 52: Oscar Strickland Age 49: Alfred Conkling Coxe, Jr.; Harlan E. Read Age 47: Harry H. Whiteley; Samuel Boyd Adams Age 46: William M. Stuart; Hartwell W. Booth; Asa P. Prather Age 44: Samuel J. Nicholls Age 40: E. Sherman Webb Age 36: John C. Schafer; William M. Nicoll; Robert Lloyd Wheelock; Oscar H. Doyle Age 32: Glen R. Law Age 31: Frederic R. Coudert, Jr. Age 29: Carroll D. Kearns Age 28: Stanley J. Dombrowski; Charles W. Fowell, Jr. Age 27: DeForrest Strang Age 25: Charles E. Yaeger; Edwin B. Earnest; Edwin DeHaven Steel, Jr. Age 23: Charles A. Mosher Age 19: Bernard J. Buenemeyer; William Albertson Age 18: Carl E. McGowan Age 17: Clifford D. Hatten Age 13: H. Stuart Hughes; Arno H. Denecke Age 11: Fred G. Pollard Age 10: Gordon L. Willford Age 9: James B. Pearson; Marshall E. Hanley Age 8: Rodger Paul Davies; Jelt Sietsema | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872 The Political Graveyard

| 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/1929/05-07.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. | |