Stewart L. Udall, an ardent conservationist and a son of the West, who as interior secretary in the 1960s presided over vast increases in national park holdings and the public domain, died Saturday at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. The last surviving member of the original Kennedy cabinet, he was 90. …
Seven months after surviving two gunshot wounds to his head, former Kirkwood Mayor Mike Swoboda died this morning after a brief stay in a hospice. … Mr. Swoboda would have turned 70 later this month. …
Jim Krog, who managed both of Lawton Chiles’ winning campaigns for governor in the 1990’s and was a sought-after lobbyist and political strategist, died Thursday. He was 60. …
October 4, 1917 - July 11, 2008
Roy M. Huffington was a struggling Texan wildcatter who struck it rich in the oil and gas reserves of Indonesia. He went on to become US Ambassador to Austria under President George H. W. Bush. Bush, himself a former Texan oilman, was a long-time friend of Huffington who had been a significant sponsor of his political campaigns, and he succeeded where President Ronald Reagan had failed in persuading Huffington to become Ambassador to Austria in 1990 after he had sold his company for an estimated $600 million, according to Huffington. …
May 18, 1940 - May 10, 2008
Alan Brooks was a lifelong campaigner against injustice who played a pivotal role in Britain’s Anti-Apartheid Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. …
December 31, 1916 - May 25, 2008
Ítalo Luder was a Peronist politician who became interim president of Argentina for 34 days during the turbulent 1970s. During his month in power he signed controversial decrees that authorised the repression of left-wing guerrilla groups. In 1983 he became the first Peronist presidential candidate to lose a democratic election. …
Tony Snow, a former White House spokesman and veteran radio and television journalist, has died following a long battle with colon cancer, his former employers said Saturday. He was 53. …
December 9, 1914 - May 9, 2008
A leader of the Jewish militia force that bombed Jerusalem’s King David Hotel in 1946, Samuel Katz went on to become one of the most prominent figures to claim that since the late 1970s the Israeli Right had become too soft.
A one-time Fleet Street journalist, Katz moved to British Mandate Palestine after the war and spent his life fighting for his right-wing Zionist principles, first through the Irgun underground militia, then as a parliamentarian, and subsequently as a writer and ideologue. …
Glencairn Balfour-Paul, CMG, soldier, colonial administrator, diplomat, traveller, writer and poet, was born on September 23, 1917. He died on July 2, 2008, aged 90.
When Glen Balfour-Paul was appointed British Ambassador to Baghdad in 1969 a friend remarked: “How clever of the Foreign Office to send someone to Iraq who doesn’t look like an ambassador.” Saddam Hussein was then plotting his way to the presidency but meanwhile had to be content with running the Baath party’s security apparatus. Later Balfour-Paul had to confront the tyrant, but he had come up through the Army and the Sudan Political Service (SPS), so was accustomed to taking the rough with the smooth. …
Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina senator whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died early Friday. He was 86. …
Robert “Robby” Stamps, one of 13 students shot by Ohio National Guardsmen during a Vietnam War protest May 4, 1970, at Kent State University, has died of complications from pneumonia.
Mr. Stamps, 58, died Wednesday in Tallahassee, Fla. A private funeral is scheduled for Monday at a friend’s house. A memorial service is planned in San Diego. …
September ?, 1939 - May 31, 2008
Glamorous and scandal-prone newspaper columnist who confessed to being the long-term mistress of the Irish Prime Minister
Terry Keane, the mistress of the former Taoiseach Charles Haughey, created a sensation in May 1999 when she went on Irish television giving details of their affair, which had gone on for 27 years and had long been the subject of speculation, much of it fanned by herself. She followed on with extracts from a forthcoming book in The Sunday Times containing rather intimate photographs for which she received £50,000. The book never appeared. …
A former [Colorado] state senator who had failed to return her friends’ phone calls was found dead in her Adams County house Thursday after the sheriff’s office was asked to do a check.
Friends of Joan Johnson, both Democrat and Republican, are mourning her her death. She was 64. …
Hamilton Jordan, a political strategist from south Georgia who helped propel Jimmy Carter to the White House and served as his chief of staff, died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. …
Veteran Labour MP Gwyneth Dunwoody, the longest-serving female member of parliament, died last night at the age of 77 after a short illness. …
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COLUMBIA, S.C. Former state GOP Chairman Dan Ross, the man credited with creating South Carolina’s first-in-the-South Republican presidential primary, is dead at 83.
Ross died at a Barnwell County nursing home, Barnwell County coroner Lloyd B. Ward said Wednesday.
Ross chaired the state party from 1976 to 1980 after running the 1974 campaign of former Gov. James Edwards. Edwards was the first Republican governor elected in South Carolina since the 1890s. … Read full obituary
English-born Northern Ireland minister whose political career was cut short by the outbreak of the Troubles …
Captain William Long, OBE, politician and fisherman, was born on April 23, 1922. He died on February 10, 2008, aged 85 … Read full obituary
GREEN ISLAND — Francis “Len” Real, a public servant in the community throughout the 1980s and `90s, died Sunday. He was 86. … Read full obituary
Former U.S. representative Bill Dickinson, who came to office in the election in which Barry Goldwater helped turn Alabama into a two-party state, died March 31. He was 82. … He had colon cancer. … Read full obituary
1:15 p.m. April 11, 2008 BAKERSFIELD — Joe Shell, a former Assemblyman who mounted a colorful campaign challenging Richard Nixon for the 1962 Republican gubernatorial nomination, has died. He was 89.
Shell, a conservative who served for five years as the GOP minority leader in the California Assembly, had been in declining health since breaking several ribs in January… Read full obituary
Former state judge Stewart Hanson Jr., 69, died March 30, 2008.
Mr. Hanson was perhaps best known for presiding over the 1976 Utah aggravated kidnapping trial of Ted Bundy and sentencing Bundy to up to 15 years in prison. Serial killer Bundy later was extradited to Colorado, where he escaped from jail, went on a crime spree and was eventually executed for murder in Florida.
Mr. Hanson was the Democratic nominee for governor in 1992. … Read full obituary
Ameriquest Mortgage founder Roland E. Arnall, 68, a billionaire who became a symbol of the subprime lending industry he helped create, died March 17 at the University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center. Esophageal cancer was diagnosed… Mr. Arnall, a Holocaust survivor who co-founded the Simon Wiesenthal Center, had resigned as President Bush’s ambassador to the Netherlands on March 7, returning to Los Angeles to be with a seriously ill son who had Hodgkin’s disease. … Read full obituary
Dr Patrick Hillery was President of Ireland from 1976 until 1990. Before that he had held several important ministries in Irish governments, including Foreign Affairs, and was the Republic of Ireland’s first Commissioner in the European Economic Community after accession in 1973. … Read full obituary
Anglican minister who pursued his vocation in tandem with a political career in three parties
Lord Beaumont of Whitley became the Green Party’s only member of either House of Parliament in 1999 after spending most of his life and a good deal of his fortune helping the Liberal and then Liberal Democrat Party. In his long career he had alternated between the church and politics. …
Lord Beaumont of Whitley, priest and politician, was born on November 22, 1928. He died on April 8, 2008, aged 79 … Read full obituary
Annemarie Renger was the first woman to become president (Speaker) of the Bundestag (lower house of the German parliament). …
When her party, the Social Democrats, lost its tenuous majority again in the Bundestag and the speakership reverted to the Christian Democrats in 1976, Renger remained a deputy Speaker until she gave up her seat in 1990 at the age of 70. …
Annemarie Renger, parliamentarian and Speaker of the Bundestag, was born on October 7, 1919. She died on March 3, 2008, aged 88 … Read full obituary
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