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Born July 31, 1900 • Nebraska
Died April 30, 1971 (aged 70) • Pennsylvania
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Louis Harris
American journalist and pollster
A Republican fixture
James Baker
American government official and political manager
Farley, James A.
James A. Farley
American politician
Mark Hanna
Mark Hanna
American industrialist
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V. O. Key, Jr.
American political scientist
George Gallup
George Gallup
American pollster
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Larry O’Brien
American political organizer and government official
Catherine Helen Spence
Catherine Helen Spence
Australian author
Nicholas II
Nicholas II
pope
Getúlio Vargas, 1951
Getúlio Vargas
president of Brazil
Roh Tae-Woo
Roh Tae-Woo
president of South Korea
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
German statesman
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Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola
Nigerian entrepreneur and politician
Charles Booth
Charles Booth
British sociologist
Luitpold, detail from a portrait by Friedrich August von Kaulbach, 1902; in the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich
Luitpold
prince regent of Bavaria
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John Jebb
British religious and social reformer
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Johan Rudolf Thorbecke
prime minister of the Netherlands
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Robert McKenzie
British political scientist
Sáenz Peña
Roque Sáenz Peña
president of Argentina
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Maria Jolas
American editor