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Nao Takasugi (2009)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Former state Assemblyman Nao Takasugi (NAH'-oh tah-kah-SOO'-gee), who was sent to a Japanese internment camp during World War II, has died. He was 87. Takasugi, a Republican from Oxnard, spent six years in the Legislature before he was termed out of office in 1998. He had been the mayor of Oxnard for 10 years before winning the Assembly seat. His son, Ronald...
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Pierre Harmel, 98 (1911 - 2009)
The Associated Press BRUSSELS -- Pierre Harmel, a former Belgian foreign minister who authored a 1967 strategy that led the NATO allies to seek detente with the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact, has died, the government said Monday. He was 98. The Belgian government said Harmel died on Sunday. His report, entitled "Future Tasks of the Alliance," became NATO policy in December 1967. At a time of...
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Bruce King, 85 (1924 - 2009)
By DEBORAH BAKER, Associated Press Writer SANTA FE, N.M. -- Former New Mexico Gov. Bruce King, a folksy cattle rancher who served more time as governor than anyone else and became an institution in state politics, died Friday. He was 85. Attorney General Gary King announced his father's death. King was a Democrat who served three terms that spanned three decades. He was in office in...
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John J. O'Connor III (2009)
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — John J. O'Connor III, the husband of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, has died. The court said that O'Connor, 79, died Wednesday in Phoenix, Ariz., of complications arising from Alzheimer's disease. John O'Connor, himself a lawyer, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's nearly two decades ago. His condition deteriorated markedly in mid...
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Henry Kimelman, 88 (1921 - 2009)
MIAMI (AP) - Henry Kimelman, whose fundraising and support for Sen. George McGovern in the 1972 presidential campaign earned him a spot on President Richard Nixon's "enemies list," has died. He was 88. Kimelman died Monday of heart failure at his home in West Palm Beach, his son Donald said Wednesday. Henry Kimelman turned to politics after building a business career in the U.S. Virgin...
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Dr. Donald Baim (2009)
NATICK, Mass (Associated Press) - Dr. Donald Baim, a renowned cardiologist and medical device executive, died Friday following surgery to treat a form of cancer, his family said in a statement. He...
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Manuel Solis, 91 (1917 - 2009)
PANAMA CITY Manuel Solis, who served briefly as president during Manuel Noriega's military regime, died Friday. He was 91. Solis died at his home from respiratory failure, said Mitchell...
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Win Aung (2009)
YANGON, Myanmar —Win Aung, foreign minister in Myanmar's military government in 1998-2004, has died in prison while serving a seven-year term for corruption. Family members said he died early...
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Dave Treen (2009)
NEW ORLEANS (Associated Press) -- Former Gov. Dave Treen, who was elected Louisiana's first Republican governor since Reconstruction in 1979 but lost a re-election bid to flamboyant Democrat Edwin...
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Teel Bivins, 61 (1947 - 2009)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Teel Bivins, a former Texas lawmaker and U.S. ambassador to Sweden, died Monday. He was 61. Bivins, who had been battling a long illness, died at his home in Amarillo, said...
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Clifford Hansen, 97 (1912 - 2009)
By MATT JOYCE, Associated Press Writer CHEYENNE, Wyo. Former Wyoming governor and U.S. Sen Clifford Hansen, a rancher who rode his agricultural background to political success in Cheyenne...
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Radu Timofte, 60 (1949 - 2009)
BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania's former spy chief Radu Timofte, who resigned in a case involving the kidnapping of three Romanian journalists in Iraq, has died. He was 60. Timofte died early...
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Jay W. Johnson, 66 (1943 - 2009)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Jay Johnson, of Wisconsin, who spent three decades as a television journalist before jumping into politics, died Saturday. He was 66. Johnson passed...
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Judge William Wayne Justice, 89 (1920 - 2009)
By APRIL CASTRO, Associated Press Writer AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice, whose rulings shattered old Texas by changing the way the state educated children, treated...
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Richard W. Sonnenfeldt (1923 - 2009)
NEW YORK (Associated Press) — Richard W. Sonnenfeldt, the chief interpreter for American prosecutors at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, has died. He was 86. Sonnenfeldt died Friday at his...
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Henry Louis Bellmon, 88 (1921 - 2009)
By TIM TALLEY, Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY Henry Louis Bellmon, who in 1963 became Oklahoma's first GOP governor since statehood and is known as the father of the state's modern...
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Guillermo Endara, 73 (1936 - 2009)
By KATHIA MARTINEZ, Associated Press Writer PANAMA CITY -- Former President Guillermo Endara, who led Panama to democracy after the U.S. invasion that toppled dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega, died...
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Gen. Nicolae Plesita, 80 (1929 - 2009)
By ALISON MUTLER, Associated Press Writer BUCHAREST, Romania Gen. Nicolae Plesita, a die-hard Communist and ruthless chief of the Securitate secret police who arranged shelter in Romania for...
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William Safire, 79 (1929 - 2009)
By DEEPTI HAJELA - Associated Press Writer NEW YORK Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his...
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George Sullivan, 87 (1922 - 2009)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Associated Press) - Former Anchorage Mayor George Sullivan, the father of the city's current mayor, has died. He was 87. Tim Sullivan told The Anchorage Daily News that his...
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Osman Ertugrul Osmanoglu (1912 - 2009)
ANKARA, Turkey (Associated Press) Osman Ertugrul Osmanoglu, the eldest member of the former Ottoman dynasty, has died, officials said Thursday. He was 97. Osmanoglu died of kidney failure at...
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Lt. Col. Elizaveta Mukasei (2009)
The following article courtesy of The Wall Street Journal By STEPHEN MILLER and OLGA PADORINA With a radio transmitter hidden in her vacuum cleaner and a homey fire burning in the living...
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Frans "Ting-Ting" Masango (2009)
By CELEAN JACOBSON, Associated Press Writer JOHANNESBURG -- Frans "Ting-Ting" Masango, a former guerrilla activist once sentenced to death for treason against the apartheid government, has died...
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Tommy Burnett (2009)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Associated Press) - Tommy Burnett, the former Tennessee House Majority Leader whose political career survived his first federal conviction but not his second, died Thursday. He...
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Bob Davis (2009)
GAYLORD, Mich. (AP) -- Former U.S. Rep. Bob Davis of Michigan has died. He was 77. Mark Ruge previously served as chief of staff for Davis. He says the congressman died Friday at a hospice in...
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Dan Walker, 81 (1927 - 2009)
FORT WORTH, Texas (Associated Press) - Dan Walker, an Army war veteran who was honored for gathering and burying a U.S. flag that was burned in protest during the 1984 Republican National...
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Jody Powell, 65 (1943 - 2009)
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jody Powell, who was White House press secretary and among the closest and most trusted advisers to President Jimmy Carter, died...
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Jack Kightlinger, 77 (1932 - 2009)
HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (Associated Press) -- Jack Kightlinger, a retired White House photographer who worked for five U.S. presidents, was killed along with his wife following a fiery wreck, his son...
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John Rarick, 85 (1924 - 2009)
ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (Associated Press) - Former U.S. Rep. John Rarick, a segregationist who served four terms in Congress from Louisiana and later carried the American Independent Party banner...
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James R. Lilley (2009)
WASHINGTON (Associatd Press) - James R. Lilley, a longtime CIA operative and later the U.S. ambassador to China during the time of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died. He was 81. The...
