The Political Graveyard: August 20, 1940 (original) (raw)

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| Politicians who were born on this date: Rubén Hinojosa — Edcouch, Hidalgo County, Tex. Roy H. Williams See also: Politicians who were born on August 20 (all years), or politicians who were born in 1940 (all dates). Politicians who were married on this date: None currently in database. See: Politicians who were married on August 20 (all years), or politicians who were married in 1940 (all dates). Politicians who died on this date: None currently in database. See: Politicians who died on August 20 (all years), or politicians who died in 1940 (all dates). Centenaries and half-centenaries of the births and deaths of dead politicians on this date: 100 Years: Elijah Abel, died August 20, 1840 50 Years: Asa Ellis, died August 20, 1890 Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date: Age 98: George W. Humphrey Age 92: Millard T. King Age 91: Francis B. Bertot Age 88: Daniel J. Campau; W. K. James Age 81: Thomas H. Dowd; Henry Litchfield West Age 79: Frank O. Bittner Age 78: John Steven McGroarty Age 76: A. Outram Sherman; J. R. Cox Age 74: John W. Palmer; Frederick J. Clippert; Thomas Yancey Williams Age 73: John H. Wilson; U. L. Spence Age 72: J. Jerome Hahn; Edward Lawrence Beach Age 71: George G. Duffee Age 70: Edward Stanley Kellogg Age 69: Clarence F. Stotts Age 68: Edward M. Day Age 67: John G. Downs Age 66: Eliza Weightman Age 64: Hector H. Perry Age 63: Elbridge G. Davis Age 62: Baxter Durham; George Fruin Age 59: John A. Floyd Age 58: James T. Milliken; Wallace Townsend; Adolf F. Johnson Age 57: Chase A. Clark; Edward R. Rayher Age 56: Forrest C. Donnell; Joan Middleton Age 55: Cliff Clevenger; Frank V. Lawson Age 53: E. Dana Dickens; Isabelle M. Summers Age 50: Gilchrist B. Stockton Age 48: George D. Aiken; Joseph A. Gavagan Age 47: Robert Humphreys; John C. Blankenhorn; Gertrude Taft McGeorge Age 45: Walter L. Gordon Age 42: Cecil Morgan Age 38: Milo R. Kniffen Age 37: Carl E. Darling Age 36: James H. Gardner; Charles S. Porritt Age 34: Edna F. Kelly Age 33: Harold F. Huibregtse Age 31: Donald E. Holbrook Age 30: Frances Jackson Age 28: James R. Harris Age 25: Nicholas G. Thacher Age 23: Terry Sanford Age 22: John Schneider, Jr. Age 21: William Pat Jennings; Thomas Gayle Morris Age 20: Daniel Dykstra Age 19: Solomon Blatt, Jr. Age 18: Charles Schwartz, Jr. Age 16: Frank J. Guarini, Jr.; James D. Johnson Age 12: Kaneaster Hodges, Jr. Age 10: Nick Kaan, Jr. Age 8: Leon D. Ralph Age 7: Don Fuqua; George J. Mitchell Age 5: Ron Paul; Stephen P. Yokich Age 2: Eugene Claypole | | | 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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/1940/08-20.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. | |