1920's Government and Politics | Deaths

Elias Milton Ammons, 64, governor (D) of Colorado (1913-1915), 20 May 1925.

Simeon Eben Baldwin, 86, governor (D) of Connecticut (1911-1915), associate justice (1893-1907) and chief justice (1907-1910) of Connecticut's Supreme Court, 30 January 1927.

Richard Achilles Ballinger, 63, secretary of the interior (1909-1911) under President William Howard Taft, 6 June 1922.

Thomas Walter Bickett, 42, governor (D) of North Carolina (1917-1921), 29 December 1921.

Horace Boies, 95, governor (D) of Iowa (1890-1894), 4 April 1923.

William Jennings Bryan, 65, representative (D) from Nebraska (1891—1895), Democratic presidential candidate (1896, 1900, 1908), 26 July 1925.

Joseph Gurney "Uncle Joe" Cannon, 90, representative (R) from Illinois (1873-1891, 1893-1913, 1915-1923), Speaker of the House (1903-1911), ousted as speaker for using autocratic methods to...