The Political Graveyard: February 12, 1944 (original) (raw)

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| Politicians who were born on this date: None currently in database. See: Politicians who were born on February 12 (all years), or politicians who were born in 1944 (all dates). Politicians who were married on this date: None currently in database. See: Politicians who were married on February 12 (all years), or politicians who were married in 1944 (all dates). Politicians who died on this date: Will A. Shepard — Placer County, Calif. Monroe M. Sweetland — Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y. See also: Politicians who died on February 12 (all years), or politicians who died in 1944 (all dates). Centenaries and half-centenaries of the births and deaths of dead politicians on this date: 100 Years: Andrew C. Bradley, born February 12, 1844 50 Years: Ferdinand A. Husher, died February 12, 1894 Office Transitions on this date: Will A. Shepard, died in office (postmaster at Auburn, Calif.) Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date: Age 96: James W. Ragsdale Age 86: Roger Dwyer Age 85: Newrie D. Winter Age 84: Thomas Parran Age 82: Howard A. Davis Age 78: Frank J. Taylor Age 76: Marvin B. Rosenberry Age 75: Charles S. Nelson Age 71: H. M. Hartman Age 66: Ransom L. Ford; Susie Irwin Age 65: George McGill; Charles H. Baxter; Thad C. Prochnow Age 64: Clifton Mathews Age 62: Henry F. Grady Age 61: Charles L. Heaberlin Age 60: William W. Link; Alice Roosevelt Longworth Age 59: Samuel Edelman Age 57: Cyrus M. Palmer Age 56: Ernest A. Heden Age 55: Frank L. Hays; Birdie Hooper Kennamer; Harry C. Byrd; Edward William Hanson Age 54: Anton Nemanich, Jr.; James J. Lyons; Arthur M. Smith Age 53: Eugene D. Millikin; Robert P. Patterson; Emmett H. Bellamy Age 52: Flossie A. Baird; Arthur H. Christy Age 51: James Seccombe; William P. Quish Age 48: Dorothy Frooks; Lenore Hopkin; Gaston P. Wautier Age 47: William T. Powers; Florence G. Claussen Age 46: David K. E. Bruce Age 44: Roger J. Traynor; Stephen L. Smith; Leland F. Ferry Age 42: Donald F. Welday; William W. Travers Age 41: Kenneth G. Prettie Age 37: Dorsey G. Fisher Age 34: John Luetkemeyer Age 33: Elizabeth B. Andrews; Andrew W. Cobb Age 32: Gus J. Strauss Age 31: Earl F. McEssy; David Augustus Moose Age 28: Joseph L. Alioto Age 27: James Ramey Age 25: Andrew F. Warga; Edward Dean Price Age 23: Joshua Eilberg Age 20: Alan Wood Lukens; Roy Smith Age 19: Joan Finney Age 17: Marc L. Marks Age 14: Arlen Specter Age 13: Constance A. Morella Age 12: Cameron M. Alexander Age 9: John P. Quimby Age 7: Ed Winn Age 6: Richard W. Sabers; Dixon Arnett Age 4: Hank Brown Age 1: David Bryan Sentelle | | | 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"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/1944/02-12.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. | |