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Xi Zhongxun (15 October 1913 – 24 May 2002) was a Chinese communist revolutionary and a political leader. He is thought to be among the first generation of Chinese leadership.

He helped the founding of Communist guerrilla bases in northwestern China in the 1930s. He was imprisoned and purged several times. He was married to writer Qi Xin.

Personal life 
Xi is also the father of Xi Jinping, the current General Secretary of the Communist Party and President of China and also  Chairman of the Military Commission.

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Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan (7 January 1967 – 29 April 2020), credited as Irrfan Khan or simply Irrfan, was an Indian movie actor. He was born in Tonk, Rajasthan, India. In 2011, Khan was awarded the Padma Shri.

Khan has garnered the National Film Award for Best Actor in the 60th National Film Awards 2012 and a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for his performance in Paan Singh Tomar. He also appeared in The Namesake, The Darjeeling Limited, the Academy Award winner Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi, New York, I Love You, The Amazing Spider-Man, Jurassic World, and Inferno.

In March 2018, Khan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine tumor. He died of colitis caused by the tumor in Mumbai on 29 April 2020, aged 53.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda (born January 16, 1980) is an American composer, lyricist, playwright, and actor. He was born in New York to Puerto Rican parents. He is best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton. He co-wrote the songs for the Disney animated movies Moana and Encanto. He directed his first movie in 2021 with Tick, Tick... Boom!. He starred in the movie based on his play in 2020.

His awards include a Pulitzer Prize, three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and three Tony Awards.

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He played the starring role of Alexander Hamilton in the Broadway musical Hamilton. He played a small role of the Piragüero in the movie In the Heights.  He played Jack in Mary Poppins Returns.

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On March 15, 2018, a , recently-erected section of the FIU–Sweetwater UniversityCity Bridge collapsed onto the Tamiami Trail (U.S. Route 41).

The pedestrian bridge was located in front of the campus of Florida International University (FIU) in University Park, a suburb west of Miami, Florida, United States. 

The road beneath it had been opened to traffic. Several occupied vehicles were crushed underneath, and six deaths and nine injuries have been reported.

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Juliana Stratton (born September 8, 1965) is an American politician. She is the 48th and current Lieutenant Governor of Illinois since 2019.

Stratton has served as a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from January 2017 to 2019. She represented the 5th district.

On August 9, 2017, it was announced that Stratton would be J. B. Pritzker's running mate in the 2018 gubernatorial election.

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Michael W. Frerichs (born July 28, 1973) is an American politician. He is the State Treasurer of Illinois, having taken office on January 12, 2015. He was a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 52nd District since 2007.

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Neal Edward Smith (March 23, 1920 – November 2, 2021) was an American politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa from 1959 until 1995. He was the longest-serving Iowan in the United States House of Representatives.

Smith turned 100 in March 2020. He died on November 2, 2021 in Des Moines, Iowa, at the age of 101.

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Harry Garner Haskell Jr. (May 27, 1921 – January 16, 2020) was an American businessman and Republican politician. He was from Wilmington. He was mayor of Wilmington from 1969 to 1973 and represented Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1957 to 1959.

Haskell Jr. died in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania on January 16, 2020 at the age of 98.

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Roger Herschel Zion (September 17, 1921 – September 24, 2019) was an American politician. 

He was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives from Indiana in the 1966 election to the 90th Congress and was re-elected to the three succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1967 to January 3, 1975. Zion was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1974 to the 94th Congress, losing to Philip H. Hayes.

Zion died at his home in Evansville, Indiana on September 24, 2019 at the age of 98.

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John Richard Schmidhauser (January 3, 1922 – February 21, 2018) was a retired American politician. He served one term as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from southeastern Iowa. He beat the incumbent Republican Fred Schwengel in 1964 but losing to Schwengel two years later in 1966, and again in 1968.

After his political career, he served as a professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, a position he held from 1973 to 1992, except when serving as a visiting professor at the University of Virginia from 1982 to 1983, and at Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby, British Columbia, in 1984.  Since 1992 he has  been a professor emeritus at USC.

Schmidhauser died in Santa Barbara, California on February 21, 2018 at the age of 96.

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Bernard Francis Grabowski (June 11, 1923 – August 30, 2019) was a former U.S. Representative from Connecticut.

In 1962, Grabowski was elected U.S. Representative from Connecticut's at-large seat as a Democrat. He served in the Eighty-eighth and Eighty-ninth Congresses (January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1967). He lost re-election in 1966.

Grabowski died in Bristol, Connecticut on August 30, 2019 at the age of 96.

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Catherine Small Long (February 7, 1924 – November 23, 2019) was a Democratic former U.S. representative for Louisiana's 8th congressional district, serving from 1985 to 1987. She was the first female military veteran elected to Congress, having served as a WAVE in the United States Navy.

Long died of dementia-related problems on November 23, 2019 in Chevy Chase, Maryland.  She was 95.

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Donald MacKay Fraser (February 20, 1924 – June 2, 2019) was an American politician. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He served in the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota's 5th congressional district from 1963 to 1979. He served as the 44th Mayor of Minneapolis from 1980 to 1993.

Fraser died on June 2, 2019 in Minneapolis at the age of 95.

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Arvonne S. Fraser (September 1, 1925 – August 7, 2018), was an American activist and educator. She was the Senior Fellow Emerita at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota and from 1993-1994 was the US Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. From 1980 to 1993, she was First Lady of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Fraser died on August 7, 2018 at a family retreat home near the St. Croix River in Hudson, Wisconsin at the age of 92.

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Howard Curtis Nielson (September 12, 1924 – May 20, 2020) was an American Republican politician.

He was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives from Utah and served four terms, from January 3, 1983 to January 3, 1991. While in Congress, Nielson sponsored two resolutions calling on Israel to reopen Palestinian schools and colleges.

He also cosponsored a bill to limit tobacco advertising.  He also was a leading proponent of releasing the names of people who tested positive for AIDS to Public Health Officials.

Nielson died on May 20, 2020 at the age of 95.

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Merwin Coad (born September 28, 1924) is an American politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa's 6th congressional district for six years, serving from January 1957 to January 1963.

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William Franklin Graham III (born July 14, 1952) is an American Christian evangelist and missionary. He engages in Christian revival tours and political commentary. He is president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) and of Samaritan's Purse, an international Christian relief organization.

Graham became a "committed Christian" in 1974 and was ordained in 1982, and has since become a public speaker and author. He is also known for being a son of the American evangelist Billy Graham.

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Kya Hua Tera Vaada is an Indian television soap opera, it was aired on from Sony TV, 
The series will be created by Balaji Telefilms. 
And  produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor
The series is starred by Mona Singh.

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Paul Klee (18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-German artist. He was one of the most famous painters of the 20th century. His work was influenced by  Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. He was also very interested in the theory of color.

Life and career
Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee, a town near Bern in Switzerland. His mother, born Ida Maria Frick, came from Basel in Switzerland. His father, Hans Klee, came from Tann, a small town in the Hesse state of Germany. Both his parents were musicians. When he was very young he trained to be a violinist. Then he decided to become an artist. He studied art under Heinrich Knirr. In 1899 he was admitted to the Academy of Fine arts in Munich. After leaving the academy he also studied art in Italy. After Italy, he returned to Bern and lived with his parents for several years.

Klee married the pianist Lily Stumpf in 1906. They went to live in Munich. In 1906 he had his first major exhibition. Besides his painting, Klee taught art at the Bauhaus from 1920 to 1931. and later at the Dusseldorf Academy. When the Nazis came to power in Germany, life became very hard for modern artists. Klee moved back to Switzerland in 1933. He died in Muralto, Switzerland in 1940. For many years he had suffered from scleroderma, an autoimmune disease.

Klee made over 10,000 paintings, drawings, and etchings in his lifetime. His works are held in museums all over the world. In 2005, the Zentrum Paul Klee (Paul Klee Center) was opened in Bern. The building was designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano. It holds 4000 works by Klee and shows 150 at time. The exhibition changes every six months.

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These pictures are from Klee's mature career. He painted them while he was teaching at the Bauhaus. During this time he was also a member of a group of artists called Die Blaue Vier (The Blue Four). The other three members were Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, and Alexej von Jawlensky. Like Klee, both Kandinsky and Feininger taught at the Bauhaus. The four artists lectured and exhibited together in Germany and the USA.

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Wander Over Yonder was an American animated television program produced by Disney. It aired on TV starting on August 16, 2013. The show ended on June 27, 2016.

The series follows Wander, a nomadic and optimistic traveller and his best friend, Sylvia, as they go from planet to planet helping people to have fun and live free. This angers Lord Hater, one of the most powerful villains in the galaxy, who tries to defeat Wander with his army of Watchdogs.

The creator of the show is Craig McCracken, who has also created The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

Development 
Wander Over Yonder is McCracken's first show on a Disney-owned network. Wander first appeared on sketchbooks and clothes that McCracken sold at conventions, as well as in a never-finished graphic novel. McCracken has described Wander as a "nomadic, hippie, muppet man".

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Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi (; born 19 August 1968) is a Ukrainian politician. He is the mayor of Lviv, the administrative center of the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine, and the leader of the Self Reliance political party.

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A Qubit (or QBit) is a unit of measure used in quantum computing. 

Like a bit in normal (non-quantum) computing, a Qubit has two distinct states, 0 state and the 1 state. However, unlike the normal bit, a qubit can have a state that is somewhere in-between, called a "superposition."

You cannot measure the superposition without the superposition going away (changing). If you try to measure a qubit that is in a superposition, the qubit will change, and become one of two states. The resulting state the qubit changes to depends on how it is measured. For simplicity, let's assume we are measuring in a way that will make the qubit change to either a 0 state or a 1 state.

A qubit can be represented as a 2-element column vector.

A qubit in the 0 state looks like . 

A qubit in the 1 state looks like .

In general, a qubit state will look like  , where .

α and β are called amplitudes. They can be complex numbers. Each state has an amplitude.

By squaring a state's amplitude, you can get the probability of measuring that state.

Each state can also have a phase. The phase is part of the amplitude and is what can make the amplitude a complex number.

A state's phase is like how much that state has rotated. The angle of phase is usually represented as either Φ or φ. Let's use φ.

φ can go from 0 to  radians. The angle sort of goes into an Euler identity, where instead of , the  gets substituted with the angle φ. The state's phase becomes .

This expression is a phase factor that becomes part of a state's amplitude. It gets multiplied with the amplitude.

A phase angle of 0 makes the amplitudes positive real numbers, since .

A phase angle of  makes the amplitudes negative real numbers, since . (This is Euler's identity)

A phase angle of  makes the amplitudes positive imaginary numbers, since .

A phase angle of  makes the amplitudes negative imaginary numbers, since .

Beyond 0 and , the phase angle just wraps back around again, since it is just a rotation.

An example qubit may look like . There is a 50% chance of measuring a 0 or a 1. There is a phase of 1 on the 0 state's amplitude. There is a phase of -1 on the 1 state's amplitude.

Qubits are generally written as kets, which look like . Kets are part of Bra-Ket notation, also known as Dirac notation. Kets are a way of saying column vector.

The 0 and 1 state are written as  and  respectively. 

A general qubit in ket notation will be written as .

This equation is exactly the same as , since 

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Lawrence Kwong (born Eng Kai Geong (); June 17, 1923 – March 15, 2018) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward and businessman. He is known as the first person of Asian ancestry to play in the National Hockey League (NHL), and the first player to break hockey's color barrier.

Kwong was also the first NHL player from Vernon, British Columbia, and the Okanagan region. Kwong's nicknames included the "China Clipper" (a name later used for CFL player Normie Kwong) and "King Kwong".

From 1941 to 1959, Kwong played for the New York Rangers.

Kwong died March 15, 2018 in Calgary, Alberta of complications from pneumonia at the age of 94.

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Arnaldo Pagliarini Lerma (November 18, 1950 – March 16, 2018) was an American writer and activist. He was a former Scientologist, and critic of Scientology. He appeared in television, media and radio interviews. Lerma was the first person to post the court document known as the Fishman Affidavit, including the Xenu story, to the internet via the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology. He was a strong critic of L. Ron Hubbard. He was born in Washington, D.C..

Lerma committed suicide by shooting himself on March 16, 2018 in Alexandria, Virginia after shooting his wife in the face with a 9 mm handgun. He was 67 years old.

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Church of Scientology protects secrets on the Internet CNN, Washington, August 26, 1995
Affidavit by Arnie Lerma dated September 6, 1995.
Brinkema, Leonie M. Civil Action No. 95-1107-A: Memorandum Opinion Alexandria: US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia-Alexandria Division, November 28, 1995
alt.scientology.war by Wendy Grossman, Wired Magazine, December, 1995

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Roger Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell, PC (25 February 1934 – 17 March 2018) was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as an MP from 1970 until 1987 and as Secretary of State for Wales during the Margaret Thatcher ministry. He was born in London.

Edwards died on 17 March 2018 at the age of 84.

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Guðjón Arnar Kristjánsson (5 July 1944 – 16 March 2018) was an Icelandic politician. He was the chairman of the Liberal Party (Frjálslyndi flokkurinn) from 2003 to 2009. He was an active member of the Independence Party. In 1999 he joined Sverrir Hermannsson and formed the Liberal Party. He was a member of Althingi from 1999 to 2009.

Kristjánsson died of cancer on 16 March 2018 at the age of 73.

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Ivor Seward Richard, Baron Richard (30 May 1932 – 18 March 2018) was a British Labour Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1964 until 1974. He was also a member of the Commission of the European Communities and latterly sat as a life peer in the House of Lords.

Richard died on 18 March 2018 at the age of 85.

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Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien (17 March 1938 – 19 March 2018) was a Scottish Catholic cardinal. He was the Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh from 1985 to 2013.

O'Brien was opposed to homosexuality and same-sex marriage, which he described as "moral degradation".

O'Brien's resignation followed publication of allegations he had engaged in inappropriate and predatory sexual conduct with junior priests and student priests, also that he abused power. He stepped down as a result.

On 20 March 2015, the Vatican announced that though he remained a member of the College of Cardinals O'Brien would not exercise his rights or duties as a cardinal, in particular voting in papal conclaves. 

O'Brien died from complications of a fall on 19 March 2018 at a hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne at the age of 80.

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Kedarnath Singh (7 July 1934 – 19 March 2018) was an Indian poet. He was one of the most known modern poets writing in Hindi. He was also a critic and essayist. He was awarded the Jnanpith Award (2013), Sahitya Akademi Award (1989) in Hindi for his poetry collection, Akaal Mein Saras (Cranes in Drought).

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George William Whitehurst (born March 12, 1925) is an American professor and politician. He served in the United States House of Representatives from the state of Virginia. He began his career as a professor at the College of William and Mary.

Whitehurst was elected to Congress in 1968 as a Republican from a district based in the Hampton Roads area. He was the first Republican to represent that part of Virginia since the Great Depression, and only the second Republican elected to a full term from that district in the 20th century. 

On October 6, 2016, Whitehurst, along with other Republican former members of Congress, was co-signator of a letter opposing Donald J. Trump's candidacy for the office of president.

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Frederick Bernard Rooney, Jr. (November 6, 1925 – December 23, 2019) was an American politician. He was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1963 until 1979.

Rooney died at his home in Washington D.C. on December 23, 2019 at the age of 94.

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Elwood Haynes "Bud" Hillis (born March 6, 1926) is an American politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1971 through 1987 as a Republican.

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Carrie Pittman Meek (April 29, 1926 – November 28, 2021) was an American politician. She served as the Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Florida in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003. She represented Florida's 17th congressional district.

She was elected to the Florida House as a Democrat in 1979, and served until 1982.

Meek died at his home in Miami, Florida on November 28, 2021 at the age of 95.

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Richard Nichols (April 29, 1926 – March 7, 2019) was an American politician. He was a one-term U.S. Representative from Kansas serving from 1991 to 1993 as a Republican.

In 1986, Nichols was stabbed by a man aboard the Staten Island Ferry while a tourist with his wife in New York City. He fully recovered from his wounds and was visited by Mayor Ed Koch in the hospital.

Nichols was elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Second Congress (January 3, 1991–January 3, 1993), representing Kansas's 5th congressional district. He narrowly beat future FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair in the Republican primary.

Nichols died at his home in McPherson, Kansas on March 7, 2019 from respiratory failure at the age of 92.

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Earl Dewitt Hutto (May 12, 1926 – December 14, 2020) was an American politician. He was a U.S. Representative from Florida's 1st congressional district serving from 1979 to 1995 and was replaced by Joe Scarborough.

Hutto was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 1972 and was reelected in 1974 and 1976. He was elected as a Democrat to the 96th and to the seven succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1979 to January 3, 1995; he was not a candidate in 1994 for reelection to the 104th Congress.

Hutto died on December 14, 2020 in Pensacola, Florida at the age of 94.

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Joseph Paul "Joe" Kolter (September 3, 1926 – September 8, 2019) was an American politician and convicted fraudster. He was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania serving from 1969 to 1982.

He was elected as a Democrat to the 98th and to the four succeeding Congresses serving from January 3, 1983, to January 3, 1993. He was defeated in the 1992 Democratic primary by Ron Klink.

Kolter was implicated in the Congressional Post Office scandal, that also involved Illinois Congressman Dan Rostenkowski. He was indicted and sentenced to 6 months in prison.

Kolter died in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on September 8, 2019 at the age of 93.

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Daniel David Rostenkowski (January 2, 1928 – August 11, 2010) was an American politician. He was a United States Representative from Chicago, serving from 1959 to 1995. He became one of the most powerful legislators in Washington, especially in matters of taxation, until he went to prison. A Democrat, Rostenkowski was for many years Democratic Committeeman of Chicago's 32nd Ward, retaining this position even while serving in Congress.

Rostenkowski's political career ended abruptly in 1994 when he pleaded guilty to charges of mail fraud and was fined and sentenced to 17 months in prison.

On August 11, 2010, Rostenkowski died from lung cancer at his summer home in Genoa City, Wisconsin at the age of 82.

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Austin John Murphy (born June 17, 1927) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1995.

Murphy started his political career as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, where he served from 1959 to 1971. He then served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1971 to 1977. 

In 1976, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives, replacing longtime incumbent Thomas E. Morgan. He served as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1984 and 1988.

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Clarence J. "Bud" Brown Jr. (June 18, 1927 – January 26, 2022) was an American publisher and politician. He was a Republican United States Representative from the 7th District of Ohio, serving from 1965 to 1983. 

Appointed by President Ronald Reagan, he also served as the United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Acting Secretary of Commerce, in total from 1983 to 1988.

He was the father of actor Clancy Brown.

Brown died on January 26, 2022 in Urbana, Ohio at the age of 94.

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Earl Douglas "Doug" Applegate, Jr. (March 27, 1928 – August 7, 2021) was an American politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio. Applegate was a Democrat. He ran for President of the United States in the Democratic Party primaries for the 1988 presidential election.

By 1994, Applegate had served almost two decades in the House, and opted to retire.  He was succeeded by Bob Ney.

Applegate died on August 7, 2021 in Spring Hill, Florida, aged 93.

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Mo Yun-tuan (; 11 May 1928 – 19 March 2018), known by the pen name Luo Fu (), was a Taiwanese writer and poet. He was born in Hengyang, Republic of China. 

In Taiwan, Mo published several collections of poetry. Mo and his contemporary Yu Kwang-chung were described as the Gemini of Chinese poetry, in reference to the constellation depicting the mythological twins Castor and Pollux. Mo left Taiwan for Canada in 1995.

In June 2016, Mo was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died of respiratory failure on 19 March 2018 in Taipei, aged 89.

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Janice Lenore "Jan" Meyers (née Crilly; July 20, 1928 – June 21, 2019) was an American politician. She was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. She was a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas serving from 1985 to 1997.

Career 
From 1972 until 1984, she was a member of the Kansas Senate. In 1978, she ran for the United States Senate, but was defeated in a multi-candidate Republican primary which was won by Nancy Kassebaum.

Personal life 
Meyers died on June 21, 2019 in Merriam, Kansas from problems caused by heart disease at the age of 90.

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Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker (born July 29, 1932) is an American politician. She represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1978 to 1997.  She is the daughter of Alf Landon, who was Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937 and the 1936 Republican nominee for president.

Kassebaum was married to former Senator and diplomat Howard Baker. She was the first woman ever elected to a full term in the Senate without her husband having previously served in Congress.

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 Congressional Biography
 

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Alfred Mossman Landon (September 9, 1887 – October 12, 1987) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party. He served as the 26th Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937.

Landon was the Republican Party’s nominee in the 1936 presidential election, but was defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

President Reagan and Mrs. Reagan attended Landon's hundredth birthday party at his home in Topeka.   President Reagan described Landon as "the living soul of Kansas" and remarked, "You don't know what a joy it is to come to a birthday party of someone who in all honesty can call me a kid."

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Alf Landon's Obituary (New York Times)
Alfred M. Landon Lecture Series on Public Issues (Kansas State University) 
Alf Landon and Social Security Reform by Nicholaus Mills, Dissent, Spring 2005.

1887 births
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William Sheldrick Conover II (born August 27, 1928) is an American politician. He is a former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania serving from 1972 to 1973.

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 The Political Graveyard
 

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William Jackson "Jack" Edwards (September 20, 1928 – September 27, 2019) was an American politician. He was the former U.S. Republican politician, who represented Alabama in the  U.S. House of Representatives from 1965 until 1985.

In Congress, Edwards was known as one of the chamber's brightest conservatives, and was a strong critic of forced busing.  He was also known for good constituent service. He helped originate the Gulf Coast Congressional Report, a public-service program giving a local view of Capitol politics.

Edwards died of pancreatic cancer in Fairhope, Alabama on September 27, 2019 at the age of 91.

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James "Jim" Leo Nelligan (born February 14, 1929) is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania serving from 1981 to 1983.

He was elected in 1980 as a Republican to the 97th United States Congress but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1982.  After his term in Congress he became the Deputy Secretary of Revenue of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from 1983-85.

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William Floyd "Bill" Clinger Jr. (April 4, 1929 – May 28, 2021) was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania serving from 1979 to 1997.

In addition, he served as vice chairman of the United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and ranking member on the Subcommittee on Aviation.

Along with then-Senator William Cohen, Clinger co-authored the Information Technology Management Reform Act, also known as the Clinger-Cohen Act.

In October 2016, Clinger was one of thirty Republican ex-lawmakers to sign a public letter condemning GOP presidential nominee (and future president) Donald Trump as "manifestly unqualified to be president."

Clinger Jr. died on May 28, 2021 at his home in Naples, Florida at the age of 92.

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Richard Taylor "Dick" Schulze (born August 7, 1929) is a Republican politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1993.

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Stennis Center for Public Service 
The Political Graveyard

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Louis Arthur "Skip" Bafalis (born September 28, 1929) is a retired American politician. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida's 10th congressional district from 1973 to 1983.

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George William Gekas (April 14, 1930 – December 16, 2021) was an American Republican politician. He represented the state's 17th Congressional district from 1983 to 2003, when he was unseated in a major upset.

Undaunted by his unexpected defeat, Gekas was elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1976 and was reelected in 1980.

Pennsylvania lost two districts after the 2000 census. One of the districts that was eliminated was the Reading-based 6th District, represented by five-term moderate-to-conservative Democrat Tim Holden.

Gekas died on December 16, 2021 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at the age of 91.

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George Gekas on the issues
The Political Graveyard

1930 births
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Michael Bilirakis (born July 16, 1930) is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1983 until 2007, representing the 9th District of Florida.

In August 2009, Bilirakis was added to Governor Charlie Crist's short list to Replace U.S. Senator Mel Martinez.

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Martha Elizabeth Keys (born August 10, 1930) is an American politician. She is a retired Democratic politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas from 1975 to 1979.

She was elected a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives from Manhattan, Kansas in 1974 and served two terms before being defeated for reelection in 1978.  While serving in the House of Representatives, Keys and her husband divorced, and she was remarried to fellow Congressman Andrew Jacobs, Jr. They separated in 1981 and eventually divorced.

Keys's sister, Lee Keys, is married to former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart.

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 Women in Congress: Martha Keys 

1930 births
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Andrew Poysell "Andy" Ireland (born August 23, 1930) is an American politician. He was a U.S. Representative from Florida serving from 1977 to 1993.

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The Washington Post Members of Congress / Andy Ireland

1930 births
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Alec Gehard Olson (born September 11, 1930) is an American politician. He is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a former state senator. He was the 40th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. 

Olson was born in Mamre Township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota.

Olson served in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 1963, to January 3, 1967, during the 88th and 89th congresses. He lost when he ran for re-election in 1966.

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Minnesota Historical Society: Alec Olson Profile 

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John Bertrand Conlan (September 17, 1930 – June 18, 2021) was an American lawyer and Republican politician. He served as a State Senator from 1965 to 1972 and as a United States Representative from Arizona from 1973 to 1977.

Conlon served in the Arizona Senate from 1967 to 1973.

Conlon died on June 18, 2021 in Asheville, North Carolina at the age of 90.

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Edward George Biester Jr. (born January 5, 1931) is a retired Republican politician and judge. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, from 1967 to 1977.

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Constance Morella (née Albanese; born February 12, 1931) is an American Republican politician. She represented  in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2003.  She also served as Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 2003 to 2007. 

Morella currently serves on American University's faculty as an Ambassador in Residence for the Women & Politics Institute. She was appointed to the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) by President Barack Obama in 2010.

Other websites

 Constance A. Morella Papers at the University of Maryland Libraries 
 Faculty Profile
 
 
 FairVote.org: Maryland's Redistricting News March 16, 2001–October 18, 2001

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Arlen Ingolf Erdahl  (born February 27, 1931) is an American politician. He served as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1963 to 1970, Minnesota Secretary of State from 1971–1975 and was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota, serving the first district from 1979–1983, in the 96th and 97th congresses.

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Bill D. Burlison, (March 15, 1931 – March 17, 2019), was an American politician who has held office in Missouri and Maryland. He is a Democrat.  He represented Missouri as a member of the U. S. Congress starting with the Ninety-first United States Congress in 1969 until he was defeated in a bid for a seventh-term by Bill Emerson in 1980.

Four months after entering the race for Congress in the 3rd District in the 2006 election, Burlison withdrew his candidacy on November 3, 2005. 

On February 23, 2016, he filed to run for the Missouri Senate against incumbent Republican Doug Libla, and was unopposed in the Democratic primary. On November 8, 2016, Libla won re-election with 69.35% of the vote.

Burlison died at his home in Wardell, Missouri on March 17, 2019 at the age of 88.

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Bill D. Burlison County Council Bio
Burlison Biography from Congressional Bioguide
County Councilman Burlison runs again for Congress, Annapolis Capital, 7/6/2005

1931 births
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John Edward "Jack" Cunningham III (born March 27, 1931) is an American politician. He is a former Republican U.S. Representative from Washington's seventh district. 

Cunningham served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1973–1975, and in the Washington Senate from 1975-1977.

Cunningham was elected as a Republican to the seventh district vacancy in a special election when U.S. Representative Brock Adams resigned to become Secretary of Transportation. However his victory in this extremely liberal district was more the result of confusion with Adams resignation. Cunningham lost reelection in 1978, and served from May 17, 1977 – January 3, 1979.

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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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Lee Herbert Hamilton (born April 20, 1931) is an American politician.

Hamilton is a former member of the United States House of Representatives and currently a member of the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council. 

A member of the Democratic Party, Hamilton represented the 9th congressional district of Indiana from 1965 to 1999. 

Following his departure from Congress he has served on a number of governmental advisory boards, most notably as the vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission.

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 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars wilsoncenter.org
 Lee Hamilton Biography and Resources wilsoncenter.org
 Iraq Study Group  usip.org
 Voting record maintained by the Washington Post washingtonpost.com
 Stonewalled by the C.I.A. Op-Ed piece co-authored with Thomas Kean in the edition of January 2, 2008 of the New York Times (accessed January 2, 2008)
 Hamilton, Lee H. How Congress Works and Why You Should Care. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.
 Hamilton, Lee H. Strengthening Congress. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
 
 C-SPAN Q&A interview with Hamilton, January 8, 2006
 A Legacy of Honor:The Congressional Papers of Lee H. Hamilton. Lilly Library, Bloomington, IN

1931 births
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Walter Eugene Powell (April 25, 1931 – January 17, 2020) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party. He served as a U.S. representative from Ohio from 1971 to 1975. 

Powell began his career as the city clerk of Fairfield, Ohio in 1956. He became a member of Fairfield City Council in 1958. In 1960, Powell successfully ran for the Ohio House of Representatives.  He was reelected in 1962, and 1964.

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