List of centenarians (politicians and government servants)
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The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as politicians and government servants – known for reasons other than their longevity
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The word "longevity" is sometimes used as a synonym for "life expectancy" in demography or known as "long life", especially when it concerns someone or something lasting longer than expected ....
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Name | Lifespan | Age | Notability |
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Giuseppe Alessi Giuseppe Alessi Giuseppe Alessi is an Italian footballer who currently plays midfielder in Lega Pro Prima Divisione for Reggiana.Alessi started his career at Torino. Then he played for S.S.C. Napoli, before joining Spezia Calcio.-External links:... |
1905–2009 | 103 | Italian politician |
Randi Anda Randi Anda Randi Anda, née Friestad was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party.She served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Rogaland during the terms 1954–1957, 1958–1961, 1961–1965 and 1965–1969.She was born in Egersund... |
1898–1999 | 100 | Norwegian politician |
Jesse Bankston Jesse Bankston Jesse Homer Bankston, Sr. was a politician within the Democratic Party of Louisiana, a businessman, and, at his death at the age of 103, a member of the board of Louisiana Public Broadcasting... |
1907–2010 | 103 | American Democratic party Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous... activist and president of Louisiana Public Broadcasting Louisiana Public Broadcasting Louisiana Public Broadcasting is a state-run, viewer-supported state network of Public Broadcasting Service non-commercial educational Public television member stations serving the state of Louisiana outside Greater New Orleans. The stations are operated by the Louisiana Educational Television... |
Celal Bayar Celal Bayar Celâl Bayar was a Turkish politician, statesman and the third President of Turkey. At the time of his death, he was the longest lived former head of state, living over 103 years .-Early years:He was born in 1883 at Umurbey, a village of Gemlik, Bursa as the son of a religious leader and teacher... |
1883–1986 | 103 | President of Turkey |
Earl Hanley Beshlin Earl Hanley Beshlin Earl Hanley Beshlin was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Earl H. Beshlin was born in Conewango Township, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Warren High School in Warren, Pennsylvania. He became a lawyer and engaged in private practice. He was elected... |
1870–1971 | 101 | American congressman United States Congress The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.... |
Robert R. Bowie Robert R. Bowie Robert R. Bowie is an American diplomat and scholar who served as CIA Deputy Director from 1977-1979.Robert Bowie graduated from Princeton University in 1931 and received a law degree from Harvard University in 1934 and turned down offers to work as a corporate lawyer with New York's major law... |
1909 – | American deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency Central Intelligence Agency The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers... |
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Sir Harry Brittain Harry Brittain Sir Henry Ernest Brittain, KBE was a British journalist and Conservative politician.Harry Brittain, as he was known, was born at Ranmoor, Sheffield, and was the son of W. H. Brittain... |
1873–1974 | 100 | British politician, journalist and founder of the Empire Press Union Commonwealth Press Union -Commonwealth Press Union :The Commonwealth Press Union was an association composed of 750 members in 49 countries, including newspaper groups , individual newspapers, and news agencies throughout the Commonwealth of Nations... |
Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne Dominick Geoffrey Edward Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, 2nd Baron Mereworth was the longest sitting British peer and legislator.... |
1901–2002 | 100 | Longest serving British peer |
Chang Ch'ün Chang Ch'ün Chang Ch'ün or Chang Chun was premier of the Republic of China and prominent member of the Kuomintang... |
1889–1990 | 101 | Chinese politician |
Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum Chau Sen Cocsal , also known as “Chhum”, was a Cambodian civil servant and politician. He is also the longest lived former head of government in history.... |
1905–2009 | 103 | Cambodian Prime Minister Prime Minister of Cambodia The Prime Minister of Cambodia , is the head of government of the Kingdom of Cambodia. Prime Minister is appointed by the King under Article 119 of the Constitution and is responsible for leading the government of the Kingdom.-Constitutional powers:The powers of the Prime Minister are established... |
Keir Clark Keir Clark William Keir Clark was a Canadian merchant and political figure in Prince Edward Island. After serving as mayor of Montague in 1941 and 1942, he represented 3rd Kings in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1948 to 1959 and from 1966 to 1970 as a Liberal... |
1910–2010 | 100 | Canadian politician |
Roswell K. Colcord Roswell K. Colcord Roswell Keyes Colcord was an American politician. He served as the 7th Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada from 1891 to 1895. He was a member of the Republican Party.-Biography:... |
1839–1939 | 100 | American governor of Nevada Nevada Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its... |
Cornelius Cole Cornelius Cole Cornelius Cole served a single term in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican representing California from 1863 to 1865, and another term in the United States Senate from 1867 to 1873.-Life:... |
1822–1924 | 102 | Longest-lived American senator United States Senate The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each... |
Elizabeth Couchman Elizabeth Couchman Dame Elizabeth Couchman DBE , was an Australian who worked in the interests of women, and was a co-founder of the Liberal Party of Australia.... |
1876–1982 | 106 | Australian Liberal Party Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office... politician |
Sir Walter Crocker Walter Crocker Sir Walter Russell Crocker KBE was an Australian diplomat, writer and war veteran.He was born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, the eldest son of Robert Crocker and Alma Bray. He served in World War II with the British Army, becoming a Lieutenant Colonel... |
1902–2002 | 100 | Australian diplomat, politician and writer |
Birgit Dalland | 1907–2007 | 100 | Norwegian politician |
Jimmie Davis Jimmie Davis James Houston Davis , better known as Jimmie Davis, was a noted singer of both sacred and popular songs who served two nonconsecutive terms as the 47th Governor of Louisiana... |
1899–2000 | 101 | American governor of Louisiana Louisiana Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties... and singer |
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1892–1993 | 101 | American Congressman |
Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (November 22, 1721 – October 27, 1824 (or October 24, 1824 ) was a Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman, who served as aide-de-camp to General James Wolfe... |
1721–1824 | 102 | Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman |
Leon Despres | 1908–2009 | 101 | American Chicago City Council Chicago City Council The Chicago City Council is the legislative branch of the government of the City of Chicago in Illinois. It consists of 50 aldermen elected from 50 wards to serve four-year terms... member and attorney |
Georges-Casimir Dessaulles Georges-Casimir Dessaulles Georges-Casimir Dessaulles , was a businessman, statesman and Canadian senator. Dessaulles holds the record for the oldest serving politician... |
1827–1930 | 102 | Canadian senator |
Floyd Dominy Floyd Dominy Floyd E. Dominy was the Nebraska-born Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner from May 1, 1959 to December 1, 1969. Dominy joined the Bureau in 1946. He was the Assistant Commissioner from 1957 to 1958.- References :*... |
1909–2010 | 100 | American commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation |
Kazi Lhendup Dorjee Kazi Lhendup Dorjee Kazi Lhendup Dorjee also spelled Kazi Lhendup Dorji or Kazi Lhendup Dorji Khangsarpa, was the first chief minister of Sikkim from 1974 to 1979 after its union with India. He was popularly known as Kazi Saab in Sikkim.-Early life:Kazi Lhendup Dorjee was born in 1904 in Pakyong, East Sikkim, Sikkim... |
1904–2007 | 103 | Indian politician and first Chief Minister Chief Minister A Chief Minister is the elected head of government of a sub-national state, provinces of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, notably a state of India, a territory of Australia or a British Overseas Territory that has attained self-government... of Sikkim Sikkim Sikkim is a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayan mountains... |
Willem Drees Willem Drees Willem Drees was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party . He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from August 7, 1948 until December 22, 1958.... |
1886–1988 | 101 | Prime minister of the Netherlands |
Eleanor Lansing Dulles Eleanor Lansing Dulles Eleanor Lansing Dulles was an author, teacher and United States Government employee. She was a member of a diplomatic dynasty which spanned three generations. Her grandfather, John Watson Foster, served as United States Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison... |
1895–1996 | 101 | American diplomat |
Fanny Edelman Fanny Edelman Fanny Jacovkis, better known as Fanny Edelman was an Argentine politician that was part of the International Brigades in defense of the Second Spanish Republic. She was president of the Communist Party of Argentina until the day of her death.... |
1911–2011 | 100 | Argentine politician |
Jules Ellenberger Jules Ellenberger Jules Ellenberger was an Imperial civil servant.Jules ELlenberger was born to an old South African pioneer family in a cave in what is now Lesotho. He was the son of D. F... |
1871–1973 | 102 | British colonial administrator |
Josef Felder Josef Felder Josef Felder was a German politician. He was one of the 94 Social Democratic members of the Reichstag who voted against the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933. He was also the last of the 94 who voted against this act.... |
1900–2000 | 100 | German politician |
Edward Fenlon | 1903–2010 | 106 | American member of the Michigan House of Representatives |
Hamilton Fish III Hamilton Fish III Hamilton Fish III was a soldier and politician from New York State... |
1888–1991 | 102 | American Congressman |
Thelma Forbes Thelma Forbes Thelma Bessie Forbes is a former politician in Manitoba, Canada. She was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1959 to 1969, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dufferin Roblin and Walter Weir... |
1910 – | Canadian politician | |
Dorothy Geeben Dorothy Geeben Dorothy P. Colleen Geeben was the oldest mayor in the United States. She served as the second mayor of Ocean Breeze Park, Florida, from 2001 to 2010.... |
1908–2010 | 101 | American mayor of Ocean Breeze Park, Florida Ocean Breeze Park, Florida Ocean Breeze Park is a town on the Indian River in Martin County, Florida, United States. It and Briny Breezes in Palm Beach County are the only two towns in Florida in which all residents live in a mobile home park bearing the name of the town. The population was 463 at the 2000 census. As of... |
Henry R. Gibson Henry R. Gibson Henry Richard Gibson was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 2nd congressional district of Tennessee.-Biography:... |
1837–1938 | 100 | American Congressman |
Marinus van der Goes van Naters Marinus van der Goes van Naters Jonkheer Marinus van der Goes van Naters was a Dutch nobleman and politician. He was born in Nijmegen. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1937 to 1967 and in-parliament chairman of the Social Democratic parties SDAP and its successor the Dutch Labour Party from 1945 to 1951... |
1900–2005 | 104 | Dutch politician |
Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye | 1898–1998 | 100 | British politician and life peer Life peer In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles cannot be inherited. Nowadays life peerages, always of baronial rank, are created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and entitle the holders to seats in the House of Lords, presuming they meet qualifications such as... |
Hassan al-Hakim Hassan al-Hakim Hassan al-Hakim was the Prime Minister of Syria from September 12, 1941 until April 19, 1942 and again from August 9, 1951 until November 13, 1951.-References:... |
1886–1988 | 101–102 | Syrian Prime Minister |
Ruth Hamilton Ruth Hamilton Ruth Hamilton was one of America's first female radio talk show hosts, and the first woman ever to win a seat in the New Hampshire legislature. Hamilton was elected twice to the New Hampshire legislature, from 1964 to 1973. She was instrumental in passing laws that shut down orphanages and made... |
1898–2008 | 109 | American politician in the New Hampshire New Hampshire New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian... legislature |
Augustus F. Hawkins Augustus F. Hawkins Augustus Freeman "Gus" Hawkins was a prominent African American Democratic Party politician and a figure in the history of Civil Rights and organized labor. He served as the first African American from California in the United States Congress, where he sponsored the Humphrey-Hawkins Full... |
1907–2007 | 100 | American Congressman |
Bert Hazell Bert Hazell Bertie Hazell, CBE , also known as Bert Hazell, was a British Labour Party politician and trade union activist.... |
1907–2009 | 101 | British Member of Parliament Member of Parliament A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,... |
John N. Heiskell | 1872–1972 | 100 | American Senator from Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River... and newspaper publisher |
Gerardus Philippus Helders Gerardus Philippus Helders Gerardus Philippus Helders is a retired Dutch politician of the defunct Christian Historical Union now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal . He served as Minister of Colonial Affairs from February 16, 1957 until May 19, 1959 in the cabinets Drees IV and Beel II... |
1905 – | Dutch politician | |
Naruhiko Higashikuni | 1887–1990 | 102 | Japanese Prime Minister |
Christopher Hornsrud Christopher Hornsrud Christopher Andersen Hornsrud served as Prime Minister of Norway from January to February 1928. He combined the post of prime minister with that of minister of finance. Although his tenure as Prime Minister was brief, his list of political accomplishments is not... |
1859–1960 | 101 | Norwegian Prime Minister |
Johan van Hulst Johan van Hulst Johan Wilhelm van Hulst is a Dutch emeritus professor and retired politician of the dissolved Christian Historical Union , now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal and an emeritus professor of education.-Early life:... |
1911 – | Dutch politician | |
Russell Jump Russell Jump Frank Russell Jump was the 56th Mayor of Wichita, Kansas, serving from 1952–1953. Born in Illinois, Jump's family moved to Kansas, the state where he would spend most of his life, when he was a child... |
1895–2000 | 105 | American mayor of Wichita, Kansas Wichita, Kansas Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area... |
Konstantinos Kallias Konstantinos Kallias Konstantinos Kallias was a Greek politician.He was born in Chalkis. He co-founded with Panagiotis Kanellopoulos the National Unionist Party. He served in many ministerial positions, including Minister for Justice and vice-president of New Democracy under Konstantinos Karamanlis . He was elected... |
1901–2004 | 102 | Greek politician |
Toshikazu Kase Toshikazu Kase was a Japanese civil servant and career diplomat. During World War II he was a high-ranking Foreign Ministry official.Kase was born in Chiba, Japan. After passing his Foreign Service Examination in 1925 he left Tokyo Higher Commercial College and attended Amherst College and Harvard as a Research... |
1903–2004 | 101 | Japanese diplomat |
George F. Kennan George F. Kennan George Frost Kennan was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War... |
1904–2005 | 101 | American Cold War Cold War The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States... policy architect |
Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak was a Pakistani politician and diplomat.-Biography:He was the President of Pakistan Movement in U.K with Dr. Abdur Rahim as Vice President and Chaudhry Rehmat Ali as Secretary. This Organisation gave the world the name "PAKISTAN"... |
1908–2008 | 100 | Pakistani politician |
Alf Landon Alf Landon Alfred Mossman "Alf" Landon was an American Republican politician, who served as the 26th Governor of Kansas from 1933–1937. He was best known for being the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States, defeated in a landslide by Franklin D... |
1887–1987 | 100 | American governor of Kansas Kansas Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south... and presidential nominee |
Haakon Lie Haakon Lie Haakon Lie was a Norwegian politician who served as party secretary for the Norwegian Labour Party from 1945 to 1969. Coming from humble origins, he became involved in the labour movement at an early age, and quickly rose in the party system... |
1905–2009 | 103 | Norwegian secretary of the Norwegian Labour Party Norwegian Labour Party The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway.... |
Sigurd Marcussen Sigurd Marcussen Sigurd Marcussen was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.In 1935 he was elected to Risør city council. After the Second World War he moved to Søndeled and was elected to the municipal council there in 1951, but never took the seat as he got a leading position in his trade union... |
1905–2006 | 101 | Norwegian politician |
Richard McHeffy Richard McHeffy Richard A. McHeffy was a political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented the township of Windsor in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1838 to 1840. His surname also appears as McHeffey.... |
1773–1874 | 100 | Canadian politician |
Cameron Ross McIntosh Cameron Ross McIntosh Cameron Ross McIntosh was a Canadian politician and newspaper publisher. He was born in Dornoch, Ontario in 1871. McIntosh served as a high school principal before his career in the public arena.-Publishing career:... |
1871–1971 | 100 | Canadian politician and newspaper publisher |
Enolia McMillan Enolia McMillan Enolia Pettigen McMillan was the first female national president of the NAACP.Born Enolia Virginia Pettigen in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Elizabeth Fortune Pettigen and John Pettigen, Enolia Pettigen attended Frederick Douglass High School and later Howard University with the help... |
1904–2006 | 102 | American former president of NAACP |
Sir Moses Montefiore Moses Montefiore Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, Kt was one of the most famous British Jews of the 19th century. Montefiore was a financier, banker, philanthropist and Sheriff of London... |
1784–1885 | 100 | British Sheriff Sheriff A sheriff is in principle a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country.... of London |
Cecil Morgan Cecil Morgan Cecil Morgan, Sr. was a leader of the legislative forces that in 1929 attempted to impeach Louisiana Governor Huey Pierce Long, Jr... |
1898–1999 | 100 | American politician in Louisiana |
Sir William Mulock William Mulock Sir William Mulock, PC, KCMG, MP, QC, LL.D was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, educator, farmer, politician, judge, and philanthropist.... |
1844–1944 | 100 | Canadian politician and cabinet Cabinet of Canada The Cabinet of Canada is a body of ministers of the Crown that, along with the Canadian monarch, and within the tenets of the Westminster system, forms the government of Canada... member |
Muhammad al-Muqri Muhammad al-Muqri Muhammad al-Muqri is more known as an adviser and grand vizier to several sultans of Morocco while that country was still under French colonial domination.... |
1844/1854–1957 | 102–112 | Moroccan Morocco Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara... Grand Vizier Grand Vizier Grand Vizier, in Turkish Vezir-i Azam or Sadr-ı Azam , deriving from the Arabic word vizier , was the greatest minister of the Sultan, with absolute power of attorney and, in principle, dismissable only by the Sultan himself... |
William Oliver William Oliver (politician) William Oliver worked in construction in Lethbridge and served as the seventh mayor of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Born in 1850 in Oxford County, Ontario, Oliver moved to Lethbridge in 1886. Two years later, he married Amelia, with whom he had three sons. After she died in 1912, Oliver married... |
1850–1951 | 100–101 | Canadian politician and mayor of Lethbridge, Alberta |
George Alexander Parks George Alexander Parks George Alexander Parks was an American engineer who worked in Alaska Territory for most of his career. Following an unexpected nomination from President Calvin Coolidge, he became the territory's first resident governor... |
1883–1984 | 100 | American territorial governor of Alaska Alaska Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait... |
Norman McLeod Paterson Norman McLeod Paterson Norman McLeod Paterson, D.C.L., LL.D., K.G St. J. was a Canadian businessman and politician.Born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, the son of H.S. Paterson, he started working with the Manitoba Railway and Canal Company in 1897. He later worked for the Great Northern Railway of Canada as a... |
1883–1983 | 100 | Canadian senator and businessman |
Antoine Pinay Antoine Pinay Antoine Pinay |Rhône]], France – 13 December 1994) was a French conservative politician. He served as Prime Minister of France in 1952.-Life:As a young man, Pinay fought in World War I and injured his arm so that it was paralyzed for the rest of his life.... |
1891–1994 | 102 | French prime minister |
Edward Bernard Raczyński | 1891–1993 | 102 | Polish diplomat and President in exile |
Richard Gavin Reid Richard Gavin Reid Richard Gavin "Dick" Reid was a Canadian politician who served as the sixth Premier of Alberta from 1934 to 1935... |
1879–1980 | 101 | Canadian premier of Alberta Alberta Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces... |
Ernie Renzel Ernie Renzel Ernest E. Renzel was an American politician who served as the mayor of San Jose, California from 1945 until 1946. He was known as the "Father of the San Jose International Airport" for his work in establishing a major airport in San Jose.-Early life:Ernie Renzel was born as a third-generation... |
1907–2007 | 100 | American mayor of San Jose, California San Jose, California San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay... |
Elmer Ernest Roper Elmer Ernest Roper Elmer Ernest Roper was a politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as leader of the Alberta Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, the mayor of Edmonton, and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was also a candidate for the Canadian House of Commons.-Early life:Roper was born in... |
1893–1994 | 101 | Canadian mayor of Edmonton Edmonton Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census... |
Albert Rosellini Albert Rosellini Albert Dean Rosellini was the 15th Governor of the state of Washington for two terms, from 1957 to 1965, and was the first Italian American, Roman Catholic governor elected west of the Mississippi River... |
1910 – 2011 | 101 | American governor of Washington |
Nellie Tayloe Ross Nellie Tayloe Ross Nellie Tayloe Ross was an American politician, the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927, and director of the United States Mint from 1933-1953. She was the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state. To date, she remains the only woman to have served as governor of Wyoming... |
1876–1977 | 100 | American governor, first female governor in the United States |
Susanna M. Salter Susanna M. Salter Susanna Madora "Dora" Salter was a U.S. politician and activist. She served as mayor of Argonia, Kansas, becoming the first woman elected as mayor and the first woman elected to any political office in the United States.... |
1860–1961 | 101 | American mayor of Argonia Argonia, Kansas Argonia is a city in Sumner County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 501.-Geography:Argonia is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 534... , Kansas Kansas Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south... , first female mayor in the United States |
Murray Seasongood Murray Seasongood Murray Seasongood was a Jewish American politician, who served as the Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio from 1926-1930. After his tenure as mayor, Seasongood was appointed as professor of law at Harvard University. He was named as one of the 100 Greatest Ohio Citizens in 1974.- References :... |
1878–1983 | 104 | American mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio |
Keshavram Kashiram Shastri Keshavram Kashiram Shastri Keshavram Kashiram Shastri was born on 28 July 1905 at Mangarol in Junagadh district of Gujarat. He was the founding leader of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.... |
1905–2006 | 101 | Indian politician |
Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell | 1884–1986 | 101 | British politician |
R. Smith Simpson R. Smith Simpson Robert Smith Simpson was an American career Foreign Service Officer who left the diplomatic corps in 1962 as deputy examiner for the State Department after writing a report in which he highlighted what he perceived to be the ignorance of many diplomatic hopefuls who knew little about the culture... |
1906–2010 | 103 | American Foreign Service Officer Foreign Service Officer A Foreign Service Officer is a commissioned member of the United States Foreign Service. As diplomats, Foreign Service Officers formulate and implement the foreign policy of the United States. FSOs spend most of their careers overseas as members of U.S. embassies, consulates, and other diplomatic... |
William Alex Stolt William Alex Stolt William Alex "Bill" Stolt served as Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska from 1941-1944.-Biography:William Alex Stolt was born to Finnish parents in Boston, Massachusetts on July 5, 1900. He spent the first ten years of his life in Finland, moving back to the United States after the death of his father, and... |
1900–2001 | 100 | American mayor of Anchorage, Alaska Anchorage, Alaska Anchorage is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the northernmost major city in the United States... |
Ramón Serrano Súñer Ramón Serrano Súñer Ramón Serrano Súñer , was a Spanish politician during the first stages of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship, the Spanish State, between 1938 and 1942, when he held the posts of President of the Political Junta Política of Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS , and Interior and... |
1901–2003 | 101 | Spanish politician |
Soong May-ling Soong May-ling Soong May-ling or Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang was a First Lady of the Republic of China , the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek. She was a politician and painter... |
1897/8–2003 | 105–106 | Chinese politician and wife of Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He is known as Jiǎng Jièshí or Jiǎng Zhōngzhèng in Mandarin.... |
John Ward Studebaker John Ward Studebaker John Ward Studebaker served as U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1934 to 1948. He was also Chairman of the U.S. Radio Education Committee. His was the longest tenure of any education commissioner, and he devoted much of his time to children's literacy and arithmetic.Studebaker was born in Iowa... |
1887–1989 | 102 | American Commissioner of Education Commissioner of Education The Commissioner of Education was the title given to the head of the National Bureau of Education, a former unit within the Department of the Interior in the United States... |
Henrik Svensen Henrik Svensen Henrik Svensen was a Norwegian judge and politician for the Conservative Party.He was born in Askøy, finished his secondary education in 1922 and got his law degree in 1926... |
1904–2007 | 103 | Norwegian Member of Parliament |
Theodore Cooke Taylor Theodore Cooke Taylor Theodore Cooke Taylor was a British businessman and Liberal politician. He was best known for pioneering profit-sharing in his business activities and for leading a movement against the opium trade... |
1850–1952 | 102 | Longest-lived member of the British Parliament |
Terentia | 98 BC–4 AD | 103 | Ancient Roman wife of Cicero Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief... |
Maurice Thatcher Maurice Thatcher Maurice Hudson Thatcher was a U.S. Congressman. Thatcher was elected to Congress in 1922 from Kentucky. He served until 1933.- Biography :... |
1870–1973 | 102 | American congressman and Military Governor of the Panama Canal Zone |
Strom Thurmond Strom Thurmond James Strom Thurmond was an American politician who served as a United States Senator. He also ran for the Presidency of the United States in 1948 as the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes... |
1902–2003 | 100 | American Senator |
Per Tønder Per Tønder Per Tønder is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Troms during the terms 1954–1957, 1958–1961 and 1961–1965.... |
1911 – | Norwegian Labour politician | |
Arna Vågen Arna Vågen Arna Vågen, née Espeland was a Norwegian missionary and politician for the Christian Democratic Party.She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo during the term 1961–1965.... |
1905–2005 | 100 | Norwegian politician |
David Wark David Wark David Wark, Irish-born, was a prominent Canadian Senator who served nearly 38 years in his elected office.... |
1804–1905 | 101 | Canadian Senator |
Cornelius Wiebe Cornelius Wiebe Cornelius W. Wiebe, was a Canadian physician and politician.Wiebe was born to a Mennonite family in Altona, Manitoba. He was educated at Wesley College, the University of Manitoba and the Manitoba Medical College, receiving his MD in 1925... |
1893–1999 | 106 | Canadian MLA Member of the Legislative Assembly A Member of the Legislative Assembly or a Member of the Legislature , is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to the legislature or legislative assembly of a sub-national jurisdiction.... from Manitoba Manitoba Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other... |
Jim Wiwa Jim Wiwa Jim Beeson Wiwa was a chief of the Ogoni people of southern Nigeria, and the chairman of the Council of Chiefs of Bane. He was born in Bane. He was the father of executed playwright and environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa and of doctor and human-rights activist Owens Wiwa, and the grandfather of... |
1904–2005 | 100–101 | Nigerian chief of the Ogoni people Ogoni people Ogoni people are one of the many indigenous peoples in the region of southeast Nigeria. They share common oil related environmental problem with the Ijaw people of Niger Delta, but Ogonis are not listed in the list of people historically belonging to Niger Delta... |
Zhang Xueliang Zhang Xueliang Zhang Xueliang or Chang Hsüeh-liang , occasionally called Peter Hsueh Liang Chang in English, nicknamed the Young Marshal , was the effective ruler of Manchuria and much of North China after the assassination of his father, Zhang Zuolin, by the Japanese on 4 June 1928... |
1901–2001 | 100 | Chinese General and instigator of the Xi'an Incident Xi'an Incident The Xi'an Incident of December 1936 is an important episode of Chinese modern history, taking place in the city of Xi'an during the Chinese Civil War between the ruling Kuomintang and the rebel Chinese Communist Party and just before the Second Sino-Japanese War... |
Xenophon Zolotas Xenophon Zolotas Xenophon Zolotas , was a Greek economist and served as an interim non-party Prime Minister of Greece.-Early life and career:Born in Athens in 1904, Zolotas studied economics at the University of Athens, and later studied in Leipzig and Paris. He came from a wealthy family of goldsmiths with roots... |
1904–2004 | 100 | Prime Minister of Greece |