1950's Government and Politics

Deaths


Ralph Henry Ackerman, 64, U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic (1948-1952), 12 January 1957.

Warren R. Austin, 78, U.S. Ambasador to the United Nations (1946-1954) October 1956.

William Augustus Ayres, 84, congressman (D.) from Kansas (1915-1921, 1923-1935), and member of Federal Trade Commission (1934-1951), 17 February 1952.

Robert M. Barnett, 57, U.S. government personnel expert and liaison officer with the International Labor Organization, 1 January 1953.

Roy Hood Beeler, 72, Tennessee attorney general since 1932, 23 September 1954.

Charles Wayland Brooks, 59, U.S. senator from Illinois (R) from 1939-1948, 14 January 1957.

Joseph R. Bryson, 60, congressman (D) from South Carolina, 10 March 1953.

William Thomas Byrne, 75, congressman (D.) from New York (1935-1951), 27 January 1952.

David D. Caldwell, 83, special...

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