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Date: April 6th, 2016 12:10 AM Author: Balding market quadroon
Clarence "Cliff" Young was 93, and was also a WWII vet. in 1952, at the age of 30 - not long out of HLS - he was elected to the US house in the GOP wave that also got eisenhower elected president.
he decided to gun it for senate during his second term, but was knocked out by the democrat, and left congress in 1957. he ended up back in nevada politics, got on the state supreme court, was president of the national wildlife federation in the early 80's, and then retired in the early 00's.
http://lasvegassun.com/news/2016/apr/05/former-nevada-supreme-court-justice-cliff-young-di/
kind of interesting how anyone who had any sort of career in the 50's is very, very old by now, with the great bulk of them dead. it wasn't really that way when i was a kid.
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Date: April 6th, 2016 12:38 AM Author: Balding market quadroon
for reference - the last remaining surviving 1950's members of congress:
William Broomfield, 93. Republican from Michigan. House (1957�1993).
John Brademas, 89. Democrat from Indiana. House (1959�1981). Majority whip (1977-1981). President of NYU (1981-1991).
Merwin Coad, 91. Democrat from Iowa. House (1957�1963).
Cornelius E. Gallagher, 95. Democrat from New Jersey. House (1959�1973).
Harry G. Haskell Jr., 94. Republican from Delaware. House (1957�1959). Mayor of Wilmington (1969-1973). President of Abercrombie and Fitch (1970).
Ken Hechler, 101. Democrat from West Virginia. House (1959�1977). West Virginia Secretary of State (1985-2001). Research Director for the 1956 Adlai Stevenson presidential campaign.
Melvin R. Laird, 93. Republican from Wisconsin. House (1953�1969). Defense Secretary (1969-1973).
Del Latta, 96. Republican from Ohio. House (1959�1989).
Robert H. Michel, 93. Republican from Illinois. House (1957�1995). Minority Whip (1975-1981). Minority Leader (1981-1995).
Al Quie, 92. Republican from Minnesota. House (1958�1979). Governor of Minnesota (1979-1983).
Neal Smith, 96. Democrat from Iowa. House (1959�1995).
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there are also two living governors from the 1950's:
Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, 94. Democratic governor of South Carolina (1959�1963). South Carolina senator (1966-2005).
John Malcolm Patterson, 94. Democratic governor of Alabama (1959�1963). Attorney General of Alabama (1955-1959).
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Date: May 12th, 2016 7:35 PM Author: Balding market quadroon
UPDATE: former congressman del latta died today. that leaves ELEVEN living house members from the 1950's.
http://www.sent-trib.com/news/del-latta-longtime-public-servant-dies-at-age/article_f81c188e-183f-11e6-b87d-6b9f4f36ab00.html
Del Latta, longtime public servant, dies at age 96
Delbert Latta, who served as a Northwest Ohio congressman for 30 years and was known for his conservative values and devotion to his constituents, died Thursday. He was 96.
Latta was elected to Congress in 1957, served as ranking member of the Budget Committee, authored several economic bills and worked closely with President Ronald Reagan.
“I know a lot of people know him as someone who fought for a strong national defense and lower taxes, and for working with President Reagan in the 1980s on economic issues. But I think possibly, his most special legacy, is how much he cared about his constituents,” said Ohio Sen. Randy Gardner, R-Bowling Green.
Latta was known for getting answers and solving problems, Gardner said.
“He viewed his job as he was hired by the people not just to go to Washington, but to work specifically for them in bridging the gap between citizens and their government,” he said.
Bowling Green attorney Mike Marsh got to know Latta while serving as the Republican party chair in Wood County in the 1980s and 1990s, and while their Bowling Green State University trustee positions overlapped in the 1990s.
“He knew every small town and township and went to every church supper and parade,” Marsh said. “You can find people all over the place who had trouble reaching their son in Vietnam, or losing a passport overseas – he was a guy who would be really on top of that...
Born March 5, 1920, in Weston to Bessie and Lester Latta, he attended public school in North Baltimore and graduated from high school in McComb in 1938.
After attending Findlay College and Ohio Northern University, he was admitted to the bar in 1944 and set up a law practice in Bowling Green.
During World War II, from 1938-41, Latta served in the Ohio National Guard and the Army, 37th Division, and was in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve from 1942-43.
Latta served three terms in the Ohio senate from 1953-58.
He was elected to represent the Ohio 5th District in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1958. Latta served 15 consecutive terms until Jan. 3, 1989, when he retired.
While in Congress, he served on the House Rules Committee and the House Budget Committee, where he was a ranking minority member. He also served three terms on the House Agriculture Committee.
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Date: July 11th, 2016 9:54 PM Author: Balding market quadroon
and there goes another one! down to ten...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/nyregion/john-brademas-indiana-congressman-and-nyu-president-dies-at-89.html
John Brademas, Indiana Congressman and N.Y.U. President, Dies at 89
John Brademas, a political, financial and academic dynamo who served 22 years in Congress and more than a decade as president of New York University in an all-but-seamless quest to promote education, the arts and a liberal agenda, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 89.
His death was announced by N.Y.U.
Mr. Brademas liked to say that being a university president was not much different from being a congressman: You shake hands, make speeches, remember names and faces, stump for a cause and raise money relentlessly. The difference, he said, is that you do not have to depend on voters to renew your contract every two years.
As a Democratic representative from Indiana from 1959 to 1981, Mr. Brademas became known as Mr. Education and Mr. Arts. He sponsored bills that nearly doubled federal aid for elementary and secondary education in the mid-1960s and that created the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities. He was also instrumental in annual financing of the arts and humanities and in the passage of Project Head Start, the National Teachers Corps and college tuition aid and loan programs.
He opposed the Vietnam War and many defense measures, rebuked President Richard M. Nixon in the Watergate scandal and voted for civil rights legislation, environmental protections, day care programs and services for the elderly and people with disabilities. He became majority whip, the House’s third-ranking official, and was re-elected 10 times in a mostly conservative district, winning up to 79 percent of the vote.
But he was swept out of office in the 1980 Republican landslide that elected Ronald Reagan president. Mr. Brademas lobbied hard for the N.Y.U. job and, as president from 1981 to 1992, transformed the nation’s largest private university from a commuter school into one of the world’s premier residential research and teaching institutions.
When he took over, Mr. Brademas had no experience running a large organization. The university had seven undergraduate colleges, 10 graduate and professional schools, 13,000 employees and a $500 million annual budget. There were 45,000 students and housing for only a few thousand, in crowded Greenwich Village and scattered sites around New York City.
But he was a gregarious leader with voluminous contacts in government and corporate life. His skills as a politician and fund-raiser had been honed in a whirlwind of congressional and civic responsibilities. And, as his admirers came to believe, he was — if there is such a thing — a natural university president.
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“No one hit the ground running as well as Brademas,” said L. Jay Oliva, N.Y.U.’s vice president for academic affairs, who became chancellor and succeeded his boss 11 years later, and who died in April 2014. “All his instincts were university presidential.”
Looking collegiate in tweeds and sweaters, displaying boundless energy, Mr. Brademas plunged into meetings with deans, trustees, students and faculty members to learn N.Y.U.’s strengths and weaknesses. He joined the boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (he later became chairman), the New York Stock Exchange, the Rockefeller Foundation, RCA and the Loews Corporation. He courted investment bankers, foundation executives, real estate moguls and private philanthropists, and reached out to N.Y.U. alumni across the country and around the world.
He also cultivated relationships with Mayor Edward I. Koch, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, leaders of the State Legislature and the City Council, newspaper publishers and other media V.I.P.s, union officials, leaders in the arts and the heads of museums, cultural institutions and other colleges and universities. He was often in Washington, conferring with education officials and members of Congress. He stoutly opposed the Reagan administration’s education cutbacks and attempts to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts.
By the end of his tenure — he stepped down in late 1991 but retired as president emeritus in 1992 after a sabbatical — he had raised $800 million for N.Y.U. and nearly doubled its endowment, to $540 million. He had recruited top scholars from around the country to join the faculty; added new fields of study, like the Onassis Center for Hellenic Studies and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; enlarged the campus; and added 11 residence halls, providing housing for half of the undergraduates. He also had established N.Y.U. study programs in Cyprus, Egypt, France, Israel and Japan.
“I find in Washington Square a tremendous sense of diversity, vitality and excitement, products of the enlivening mixture of New York University and New York City,” Mr. Brademas said in his farewell address to 6,500 graduates. “With all its troubles, New York City is still the place to be. And N.Y.U. is still the place to get an education.”
John Brademas was born on March 2, 1927, in Mishawaka, Ind., the son of Stephen and Beatrice Goble Brademas. His father, a Greek immigrant, ran a restaurant and quoted Socrates to him: “Things of value come only after hard work.” His mother was an elementary-school teacher, and one grandfather was a college professor. In 1945, he graduated from Central High School in nearby South Bend, where he was valedictorian and the star quarterback on the football team.
He enrolled at the University of Mississippi, where he joined a Navy officer training program. After his freshman year, he won a scholarship and transferred to Harvard, a change he called head-spinning.
He became a top student and president of the Wesley Foundation, the campus Methodist student group. In successive summers, he worked at an auto plant in South Bend, lived among Indians in Mexico and was an intern at the United Nations temporary headquarters in Lake Success, N.Y.
After graduating from Harvard with high honors in 1949, he attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and in 1954 earned a social studies doctorate.
Back home in northern Indiana, he resolved to run for Congress in a largely Republican district with diverse demographics: farmers, small-town retailers, auto-industry workers, members of East European ethnic groups, affluent and blue-collar voters, and college communities that included the University of Notre Dame.
It took three tries. After losing races in 1954 and 1956, he gained political experience as an aide to two members of Congress and in Adlai E. Stevenson’s 1956 presidential campaign. He taught political science at St. Mary’s College for a year, was active in civic affairs and in 1958 finally won the seat for Indiana’s Third Congressional District.
Mr. Brademas was unmarried for most of his political career, but in 1977 he married Mary Ellen Briggs, a third-year medical student at Georgetown University and the mother of four children by a former marriage. After the couple moved to New York, she became a dermatologist at N.Y.U. Medical Center.
She survives him, as do three stepchildren, John Briggs, Katherine Goldberg and Jane Murray; a sister, Eleanor Brazeau; and six step-grandchildren. His stepson Basil Briggs Jr. died in 2003.
Mr. Brademas was the author of “Washington, D.C., to Washington Square” (1986) and, with Lynne P. Brown, “The Politics of Education: Conflict and Consensus on Capitol Hill” (1987). From 1994 to 2001 he was chairman of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and from 2004 to 2007 he was a member of the New York State Board of Regents.
In 2005, N.Y.U. established the John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress, a research and teaching facility. He was the recipient of more than 50 honorary degrees and scores of awards, many of them conferred by European governments or cultural organizations, particularly those of Greece and Spain, whose histories and politics had been among his lifelong interests.
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Date: December 11th, 2016 8:06 PM Author: Balding market quadroon
melvin laird died a couple weeks ago, and now Ken Hechler, leaving us with EIGHT. hechler is believed to be one of (if not THE) last people from the truman white house, as well as one of the last adlai stevenson '52 campaign officials.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ken-hechler-west-virginia-statesman-and-author-dead-at-102/
Ken Hechler, West Virginia statesman and author, dead at 102
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia statesman and author Ken Hechler, whose seven-decade career included stints in the Truman White House and Congress, has died. He was 102.
Hechler’s wife, Carol Hechler, said Sunday her husband died Saturday night at their home in Romney.
In a statement Sunday, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin called Ken Hechler “a true West Virginia treasure.”
Hechler served nine terms in Congress, where he championed civil rights legislation and fought for coal mine safety, strip mine regulations and black lung compensation. He later served four terms as West Virginia’s secretary of state, becoming a common sight driving around Charleston in his trademark red Jeep.
“Ken was a man of his word - a fierce advocate for West Virginians who was always willing to help any person in need,” U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin said in a statement.
An Army combat historian in Europe during World War II, Hechler interviewed generals and front-line soldiers. He later was assigned to interview key German Third Reich leaders before they were charged and tried for war crimes.
After President Harry S. Truman’s 1948 re-election, Hechler landed research projects for the White House and eventually became a special assistant to Truman. He helped compile the official papers of Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Truman.
Among his writings included “The Bridge at Remagen,” a 1955 nonfiction best-seller about a key Allied victory that became a 1969 film.
Born Sept. 20, 1914, in Roslyn, New York, Hechler graduated from Swarthmore College and earned a master’s degree and a doctoral degree in history and government from Columbia University.
Drafted into the Army in 1942, Hechler trained to become a tank commander, although a violation of base regulations at Fort Knox, Kentucky, pushed his career in a different direction. In a 1985 interview with the Truman Presidential Museum and Library, he said the camp general caught him writing an autobiography after lights’ out.
“I was using a flashlight under my blanket in bed,” Hechler recalled. “He said, ‘This is the most remarkable autobiography. I don’t think you ought to be a tank commander. I think we ought to assign you to something a little bit more useful in the Army.’”
Hechler helped chronicle the 1944 Normandy invasion, the liberation of France, the Battle of the Bulge and the drive into Nazi Germany. In the thick of all but the D-Day landings, Hechler was awarded five battle stars as well as a Bronze Star.
As a captain, Hechler recalled getting a tongue-lashing from Gen. George Patton for smearing the shiny officer’s insignia on his uniform with grease to deter snipers.
After the German surrender, Hechler interviewed field marshals Albert Kesselring and Wilhelm Keitel, Gen. Alfred Jodl, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and supreme marshal Hermann Goering, among others.
Hechler often recounted how Goering offered to lead Germany’s remaining military alongside U.S. forces to “knock hell out of the Russians.”
Hechler returned to teaching at Princeton following his discharge. After Truman’s 1948 re-election, Hechler landed some White House research projects and eventually became a special assistant to Truman, writing speeches and other tasks, including helping the president tailor his whistle-stop train speeches.
In 1957, Hechler landed a teaching job at Marshall University in Huntington and won the district’s U.S. House seat the following year.
While in Congress, Hechler marched to Selma, Alabama, with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965. He was re-elected eight times before a 1976 failed run for governor.
He was elected secretary of state in 1984. As West Virginia’s chief elections officer, his office helped uncover evidence that then-Mingo County Sheriff Johnie Owens arranged to sell his office for $100,000. Owens was convicted in 1988.
Outspoken on environmental issues, Hechler ran in the 2010 special U.S. Senate race in West Virginia, largely so foes of mountaintop removal mining could register their opposition. He attracted more than 16,000 votes in the Democratic primary.
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Date: October 17th, 2018 3:26 AM Author: Balding market quadroon
by way of update, this is what the list of surviving congressmen from the 50's now looks like:
Merwin Coad, 94. Democrat from Iowa. House (1957 - 1963).
Harry G. Haskell Jr., 97. Republican from Delaware. House (1957 - 1959). Mayor of Wilmington (1969 - 1973). President of Abercrombie and Fitch (1970).
Al Quie, 95. Republican from Minnesota. House (1958 - 1979). Governor of Minnesota (1979 - 1983).
Neal E. Smith, 98. Democrat from Iowa. House (1959 - 1995).
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and one governor:
John Malcolm Patterson, 97. Democratic governor of Alabama (1959 - 1963). Attorney General of Alabama (1955 - 1959).
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Date: October 17th, 2018 6:47 PM Author: Balding market quadroon
apparently this guy is the current title-holder:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Real
appointed by LBJ in '66; currently 94 years old.
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Date: October 17th, 2018 6:49 PM Author: Balding market quadroon
turns out i updated too soon:
https://newjerseyglobe.com/fr/cornelius-gallagher-former-new-jersey-congressman-dies-at-97/
Cornelius Gallagher, former New Jersey congressman, dies at 97
October 17 2018 10:08 am
Cornelius Gallagher, the charismatic, affable Bayonne Democrat represented Hudson County in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1959 to 1973, passed away at 7:30 this morning surrounded by his family. He was 97.
Known as Neil, Gallagher became a protégé of House Speaker John McCormack, a close friend of John and Robert Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson. In 1964, Johnson briefly considered Gallagher as his vice-presidential candidate.
Until the combination of a scandal and congressional redistricting ended his political career at age 51, Gallagher was extraordinarily popular in North Jersey politics and as a Capitol Hill insider.
Born on March 2, 1921, Gallagher grew up in Bayonne. Two months before Pearl Harbor, he left college to enlist in the U.S. Army. A World War II hero, he served under General George Patton, commanding an infantry company until his discharge in 1946. Gallagher finished college, went to law school, and returned to active military duty for one year during the Korean War.
He started out in politics as a Hudson County Democratic Committeeman, representing one of the Republican wards in Bayonne. He became an ally of Jersey City Mayor John V. Kenny, the Hudson County Democratic leader. In 1953, Gallagher was elected to the Hudson County Board of Freeholders. He resigned in 1956 when Gov. Robert Meyner appointed him to serve as a New Jersey Turnpike Authority Commissioner.
The story of Gallagher’s ascent to congress began in 1956, when President Eisenhower’s coattails cost Democrats one – and almost both – of Hudson County’s congressional seats. In the 14th district, Republican Vincent Dellay ousted a Democratic congressman by six percentage points. In the 13th, Rep. Alfred Sieminski (D-Jersey City) was re-elected by 57 votes against his GOP challenger – one of the closest House races in New Jersey history. The Republican was declared the victor on election night, but the Hudson County Democratic Organization somehow found enough votes to push Sieminski over the top.
Hudson County Democrats worried that Sieminski was a weak incumbent in 1958, so they withdrew party support and gave the organization line to Gallagher. Gallagher’s main primary opponent was a formidable insurgent, James Murray, who had beaten the machine to win a State Senate seat in 1953 and a Jersey City Commissioner seat in 1957. (Murray was a second-generation insurgent: his father spent decades beating up on Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague, and almost beat him in a 1929 mayoral race.)
With a formidable block of votes out of Bayonne and the Kenny machine in Jersey City, Gallagher won the Democratic primary by 5,351 votes against Murray, 44%-35%. Sieminski finished third with 14%. A spoiler candidate recruited by the anti-Kenny forces in Bayonne received the other 7%.
In Congress, Speaker McCormack took an immediate liking to Gallagher and began to groom him for a future in the House Democratic leadership. He received seats on the House Government Operations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. As the chairman of the Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee, Gallagher later emerged as the leading House advocate of President Johnson’s foreign policy agenda.
He grew close to the Kennedy brothers, and was an early supporter of the 1960 Kennedy for President campaign, even as Meyner was still mulling the race. He was with Kennedy in the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and with McCormack in the Speaker’s office when Kennedy was assassinated. McCormack asked Gallagher to write his statement.
There was speculation in 1961 that Gallagher would seek the Democratic nomination for governor, but part leaders decided to go with Superior Court Judge Richard Hughes instead.
President Johnson short-listed Gallagher as a possible running mate in 1964. As the story goes, J. Edgar Hoover heard that and immediately requested a private meeting with the president. After that, Gallagher was removed from the list.
There are many versions of what happened to Gallagher, including allegations in a 1968 Life magazine article that he was under the control of mobster Joe (Bayonne) Zicarelli, a capo in the Genovese crime family and the boss of the New York Harbor waterfront. There is some belief that Gallagher ran afoul of Hoover while taking on the FBI as chairman of a special House committee that investigating privacy issues. One theory is that Gallagher manufactured the magazine story in retaliation for his opposition to FBI eavesdropping and wiretapping. Gallagher’s connection to Zicarelli were never proven.
The allegations against Gallagher caused his winning percentage to drop to a 56%-35% win in 1968. By 1970, he won a seventh term with 71% of the vote.
Hudson County lost a congressional seat in 1972, when a new district was created in Morris, Warren, Sussex and Hunterdon counties. Gallagher had been expected to keep the Hudson seat – part leaders were going to tell Rep. Dominick Daniels (D-Jersey City), who was 20 years older than Gallagher, to retire. Gallagher was indicted on tax evasion charges and the accusations against him came at a considerable cost.
The Hudson County Democratic Organization, in deep trouble after reformer Paul Jordan was elected Mayor of Jersey City in 1971, decided to keep Daniels and drop Gallagher. Daniels won the primary by a 51%-32% margin against Jordan’s candidate, West New York Mayor Anthony DeFino. Gallagher came in third with just 15% of the vote, with 2% going to former Congressman Vincent Dellay, who had won the other Hudson House seat in 1956 as a Republican and later switched parties.
Gallagher pled guilty and served a seventeen-month prison sentence. Upon his release in 1974, more than 2,000 Bayonne residents turned out to welcome him home. Gallagher went to work in the private sector; he lives in Warren County now – his late daughter once served as Warren County Democratic vice chair – and still returns home to Bayonne from time to time.
Funeral services are pending.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3186964&forum_id=2#37044771)
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Date: February 7th, 2019 9:43 PM Author: Balding market quadroon
UPDATE: John Dingell (first elected to the US House as part of the 1954 mid-term elections) is DEAD at 92 (surprisingly young for someone who took office in 1955):
Political giant John Dingell dies at 92
Michigan Democrat John Dingell, the longest-serving member ever of Congress who helped write most of the nation's major environmental and energy laws, died Thursday, his wife said. He was 92.
The Dearborn statesman was a champion of the auto industry and was credited with increasing access to health care, among other accomplishments. Dingell helped write most of America's major environmental and energy laws.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/02/07/political-giant-john-dingell-congressional-legend-dies/2789108002/
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Date: January 17th, 2020 5:54 PM Author: Balding market quadroon
2020 update: we're down to 3 house reps and 1 governor:
Merwin Coad, 94. Democrat from Iowa. House (1957 - 1963).
Al Quie, 95. Republican from Minnesota. House (1958 - 1979). Governor of Minnesota (1979 - 1983).
Neal E. Smith, 98. Democrat from Iowa. House (1959 - 1995).
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and one governor:
John Malcolm Patterson, 97. Democratic governor of Alabama (1959 - 1963). Attorney General of Alabama (1955 - 1959).
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in recent news:
Former U.S. Congressman and Mayor of Wilmington dies
The City of Wilmington has announced the death of a former U.S. Congressman and Wilmington mayor.
Harry G. Haskell passed away Thursday at his Pennsylvania home at the age of 98.
Haskell was the last Republican elected to lead Delaware’s largest city, during the turbulent year of 1968. After taking office, Haskell and then-Gov. Russell Peterson decided the National Guard, which had enforced a city-wide curfew for several months following riots in the wake of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, should be removed from the city.
Current city officials remember Haskell for listening to residents about what city services they needed and wanted, an effort officials say led to an expansion of the city’s parks system.
Before his time as mayor, Haskell served one term representing Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives.
In a statement, current Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki called Haskell a “giant of a person” who will be greatly missed .
https://www.delawarepublic.org/post/former-us-congressman-and-mayor-wilmington-dies
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