THE 1930s: GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: DEATHS

Grace Abbott, 61, social worker, head of the U.S. Children's Bureau (1921—1934), active in shaping New Deal policies, 19 June 1939.

Jane Addams, 74, social worker, the first president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, 21 May 1935.

Newton D. Baker, 66, secretary of war (1916-1921) under President Woodrow Wilson, 25 December 1937.

Albert Sidney Burleson, 74, U.S. congressman from Texas (1899-1913), postmaster general (1913-1921) under President Wilson, 24 November 1937.

Pierce Butler, 83, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1923-1939), one of the four conservative justices who opposed the New Deal, 16 November 1939.

Joseph Wellington Byrns, 66, U.S. congressman from Tennessee (1909—1936), majority leader of the House of Representatives (1932-1935), and speaker of the House of Representatives (1935-1936), 4 June 1936.

Benjamin N. Cardozo, 68, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1932-1938), 9 July 1938,

William Patrick Connery Jr., 48, U.S. congressman from Massachusetts (1923—1937), supporter of Roosevelt's New Deal as chair of the House Labor Committee, 15 June 1937.

Royal S. Copeland, 69, medical doctor in Michigan (1889-1908); mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan (1901-1903); dean of the New York Flower Hospital and Medical College (1908-1918); U.S. senator from New York (1923-1938); a Democratic critic of the New Deal, 17 June 1938.

Edward Prentice Costigan, 64, U.S. senator from Colorado (1931-1937), a leading progressive, 17 January 1939.

John Joseph Coughlin, 78, political ward boss in Chicago for more than fifty years, 8 November 1938.

James Joseph Couzens Jr., 64, U.S. senator from Michigan (1922-1936) who became known as the "New Deal Republican" during the 1930s, 22 October 1936.

Herbert Croly, 61, political writer whose progressive views influenced Franklin D. Roosevelt, 17 May 1930.

Charles Curtis, 76, U.S. congressman (1893-1906) and senator (1907-1913, 1915-1929) from Kansas, vice president (1929-1933) under President Herbert Hoover, 8 February 1936.

Bronson M. Cutting, 46, U.S. senator from New Mexico (1927-1935), a Republican who supported the New Deal, died in a plane crash, 6 May 1935.

George Henry Dern, 63, governor of Utah (1924-1933), secretary of war (1933—1936) under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 August 1936.

Joseph M. Dixon, 67, U.S. congressman (1903-1907) and senator (1907-1913) from Montana, governor of Montana (1921-1925), first assistant secretary of the interior (1929—1933), a manager of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 presidential campaign, 22 May 1934,

Simeon Davison Fess, 75, conservative U.S. congressman (1913-1923) and senator (1923-1935) from Ohio, Republican whip (1929-1933), Republican National Committee chairman (1930—1932), 23 December 1936.

Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, 77, U.S. senator from Florida (1909-1936), a moderate Democrat active on the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, 17 June 1936.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 75, feminist, socialist, and a founding member of the Woman's Peace Party (1915), 17 August 1935.

Louis McHenry Howe, 65, secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 18 April 1936.

William Lorimer, 72, U.S. congressman (1895-1901, 1903-1909) and senator (1909-1912), a Republican expelled from the Senate in 1912 for employing "corrupt methods and practices" in his Senate campaign, 3 September 1933.

Floyd B. Olson, 44, Farmer-Labor Party governor of Minnesota (1930-1936), 22 August 1936.

Milo Reno, 70, a leader of the Farmers' Holiday Association, 5 May 1936.

Joseph T. Robinson, 64, U.S. congressman (1903—1913) and senator (1913-1937) from Arkansas, Democratic leader in the Senate (1923-1937), ran unsuccessfully for vice president on the ticket with Alfred E. Smith (1928), 14 July 1937.

Thomas D. Schall, 57, U.S. congressman (1915-1925) and senator (1925-1935) from Minnesota, a conservative Republican and a vociferous opponent of Roosevelt and the New Deal, blinded by an accident in 1907, died after being struck by a car in Washington, D.C., 22 December 1935.

John Simpson, 62, head of the Oklahoma Farmers' Union (1917-1931), president of the National Farmers' Union in the early 1930s, 15 March 1934.

Hoke Smith, 76, secretary of the interior (1893-1896) under President Grover Cleveland, governor of Georgia (1907-1909, 1911), U.S. senator (1911-1921), leader of the campaign to disenfranchise African Americans in Georgia, 27 November 1931.

Melvin A. Traylor, 55, businessman and informal adviser to the New Deal on financial matters, 14 February 1934.

George F. Warren, 64, expert on farm management and a fiscal adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 24 May 1938.