Showing posts with label Politician. Show all posts
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Wednesday 9 January 2019

Carmencita Reyes, Filipino politician, Died at 87

Carmencita Ongsiako Reyes was born on November 9, 1931, and died on January 7, 2019.

She was a Filipino politician and jurist.

Reyes was an Assemblywoman from 1985 to 1986, Congresswoman of Marinduque from 1978 to 1998 and 2007 to 2010, as well as governor from 1998 to 2007 and 2010 to her death.

She was appointed the Assemblywoman until the 1986 EDSA Revolution drove Marcos out of power.

Carmencita Reyes passed away at 87 years old.

Larry Langford, American politician, Died at 72

Larry Paul Langford was born on March 17, 1946 and died on January 8, 2019.

He was an American politician.

He had a one term tenure as the mayor of the city of Birmingham, Alabama.

Langford died when he was hospitalized on compassianate discharge from serving out a 15-year government lawful offense sentence.

He was recently the Jefferson County, Alabama, Commission, including four years as the primary African-American commission president.

Then he filled in as civic chairman of Fairfield, Alabama, and served one term on the Birmingham City Council.

Going into legislative issues, he was an outstanding TV character, having worked for then-nearby ABC TV member, WBRC as the network's first African-American TV news journalist.

During 2010, he began serving a 15-year government crime sentence, the aftereffect of an exceptionally broadcasted open defilement preliminary in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

He fund-raised and created open intrigue and support for Visionland Theme Park (presently known as Alabama Splash Adventure), situated close Bessemer.

He was condemned to 15 years in jail by a government judge in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on March 5, 2010.

Then he was fined more than $119,000.

He transported from his jail to a clinic because of an instance of pneumoniaOn April 27, 2015.

He was first rejected for a merciful discharge in the wake of portraying himself as "at death's door". A government judge diminished Langford's sentence for debasement to time served on December 28, 2018.

 Larry Langford was conceded empathetic discharge from jail in December 2018 because of his falling flat wellbeing.

Larry Langford passed away at 72 years old.

Ian Adamson, Northern Irish politician, Died at 74

Dr Ian Adamson was born on June 28, 1944, in Bangor, County Down and died in January 2018.

He was a former Lord Mayor of Belfast.

He is a former member of the Ulster Unionist Party and is a retired pediatrician.

Ian Adamson had filled in as Deputy Lord Mayor in 1994-95 and after that Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1996-97 and was given the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty The Queen in 1998 for administrations to the nearby government.

Adamson originator of the Ullans Academy, of which he is currently President, trailed by the Ulster-Scots Language Society in 1992 and turned into the principal Rector and organizer Chairman of the Ulster-Scots Academy in 1994.

He was a Specialist in Community Child Health (Community Pediatrics) being an individual from the Faculty of Community Health and was granted the association of the Royal Institute of Public Health for his administrations to the wellbeing of youngsters in 1998.

In later years, Adamson turned into a Patron of the Dalaradia Group, situated in Newtownabbey they gradually advanced from the harmony procedure as a vehicle for regular workers followers in County Antrim, a large number of whom were ex-soldiers, to take part in the change of their networks after the inconveniences.

Dr Ian Adamson passed away at 74 years old.

Michele Caccavale, Italian politician, Died at 71

Michele Caccavale died on January 2, 2019.

He was an Italian politician.

He served as a Deputy between 1994 and 1996.

Michele Caccavale passed away at 71 years old.

Francisco Dela Cruz, Northern Mariana Islands politician, Died at 54

Francisco Santos Dela Cruz was born on March 29, 1962 and died on January 6, 2019.

He was a Northern Mariana Islands territorial legislature.

He served in the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives from 2006 to 2004 and was a Republican.

He died suddenly of a heart attack on the island of Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands, while visiting his family with his wife.

Francisco Dela Cruz passed away at 54 years old.

Tuesday 8 January 2019

Jayantilal Bhanusali, Indian politician, Died at 54

Jayantilal Parshottam Bhanusali died in January 2019.

He was a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Abadasa electorate in Gujarat from December 2007 to December 2012.

Jayantilal Bhanusali was an individual from the twelfth administrative get together. Bhanusali was shot dead by unidentified aggressors on board a train, Sayajinagari Express among Kataria and Surajbari stations on 8 January 2019.

Jayantilal Bhanusali passed away at 86 years of age.

Edwin Erickson, American politician, Died at 80


Edwin B. "Ted" Erickson was born in 1938 and died on January 7, 2019.

He was an American politician.

Edwin Erickson was a Republican member of the Pennsylvania Senate, representing the 26th District from 2001 to 2015.

The district had most of Delaware County and parts of Chester County.

Edwin Erickson passed away at 80 years old.

Monday 7 January 2019

Tom Rukavina, American politician, Died at 68

Thomas Rukavina was born on August 23, 1950, and died on January 7, 2019.

He was an American politician and a Democratic–Farmer–Labor.

He was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1987 to 2013.

Rukavina was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Minnesota, in 2010 seeking the DFL nomination.

Rukavina was a St. Louis County commissioner from 2015 to 2018.

Tom Rukavina passed away at 68 years old due to leukemia.

Myron Thompson, Canadian politician, Died at 82

Myron Thompson was born on April 23, 1936, and died on January 5, 2019.

He was a Conservative Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada.

Myron Thompson represented the riding of Wild Rose in Alberta.

He was of a dual citizen of Canada and the United States, Thompson was born and raised in Monte Vista, Colorado.

 At the age 19 years old, Thompson tried out for the New York Yankees as a catcher however failed to make the team due to Yogi Berra's dominance at the position.

Myron Thompson passed away at 82 years old.

José Ramón Fernández, Cuban militant, Died at 95

José Ramón Fernández Álvarez was born on November 4, 1923 and died on January 6, 2019.

He was a Cuban Communist leader.

He was a Vice-President of the Council of Ministers.

He was a member of the Cuban government at the investiture of presidents in several Latin American countries and at other governmental events.

José Ramón Fernández was a member of the Executive Committee of the Pan American Sports Organization.

Thru the recognition of his work, Fernández Álvarez was awarded several medals, among them the title of Hero of the Republic of Cuba.

José Ramón Fernández passed away at 95 years old.

Gene Zwozdesky, Canadian politician, Died at 70

Gene Zwozdesky was born on July 24, 1948, in Nipawin, Saskatchewanin Nipawin, Saskatchewan and died on January 6, 2019.

He was a Canadian politician.

He represented the province of Alberta.

 Gene Zwozdesky was in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 to 2015 and was the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 2012 to 2015.

His parents were Ukrainian-Canadian born Alec and Anna Zwozdesky.

During his career he has won numerous awards from cultural and arts organizations, as well as the 2005 Alberta Centennial Medal.

He became a member of the Ukrainian Shumka Dancers in 1963, and performed in the troupe for six years then going on to becoming the musical director, composing and conducting Shumka's music for twenty-five years.

Gene Zwozdesky also served in the same role for the Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Company.

Zwozdesky was married to Christine, the couple rasiesd two children.

Gene Zwozdesky passed away at 70 years old.

Moshe Arens, Israeli aeronautical engineer and politician, Died at 93


Moshe Arens was born on December 1925, in Kaunas, Lithuania, and died on January 7, 2019.

He was an Israeli aeronautical engineer, researcher, diplomat, and Likud politician.

Arens was a member of the Knesset between 1973 and 1992 and again from 1999 until 2003.

Moshe Arens was also appointed the Minister of Defense three times and once as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

He was also served as the Israeli ambassador to the U.S.

Arens served as a professor at the Technion in Haifa.

He was the Deputy Director General at Israel Aircraft Industries from 1962 until 1971, where he was in charge of major development projects, including the Kfir fighter jet project.

Moshe Arens passed away at 93 years old.

Saturday 5 January 2019

Odeen Ishmael, Guyanese diplomat, Died at 70

Odeen Ishmael was born on January 29, 1948 and died on January 5, 2019. He was a veteran Guyanese diplomat.

During June 2014, Ishmael retired from the diplomatic service.

Ishmael subsequent served as Guyana's ambassador to Kuwait, having been appointed to that post in January 2011.

In 2012, he was appointed as non-resident ambassador to Qatar. Before that, Ishmael also served as ambassador to Venezuela (November 2003-January 2011) and to the United States (June 1993–October 2003) and as Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) (June 1993–October 2003).

At the OAS Ishmael was for a short time the Chairman of the Permanent Council.

During 2009, Ishmael was elected to a one-year term as Chairman of the Latin American Council, the political governing body of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela.

During 1997, he earned the Cacique's Crown of Honour, Guyana's third highest national honor, for his outstanding work in diplomacy.

During 1974, Ishmael was given the Gandhi Centenary Gold Medal for academic achievement at the University of Guyana.

During January 2002, in Washington DC, Ishmael was rewarded in the United States of America with the Martin Luther King Legacy Award for International Service.

The US Congress, in joint goals, likewise paid an uncommon tribute to him in October 2003 just before he finished his administration in the United States.

His commentaries on international affairs, mostly, his analyses of South American integration issues, have been published worldwide.

As a writer, Ishmael has published books dealing with Guyanese history, culture and education; and political developments in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Ishmael can trace his ancestors back to what is now the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

Ishmael has two youngsters: Safraz, a Georgetown University graduate school former student and a Physics graduate of the University of Maryland, and presently a lawyer joined to a law office in Boston; and Nadeeza (former student of the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University-(MS in Bio-Technology), who, up to 2008, worked at a hereditary qualities organization in Maryland , then as an examination researcher at Concordia University in Montreal from 2008 to 2016, is as of now appended (from 2017) to the Michener Institute in Toronto, Canada.

Evangeline his wife, held a BS in Communication Studies, and worked as a teacher for many years.

Ishmael had eight brothers and three sisters, which makes him the uncle of many children.

Odeen Ishmael passed away at 70 years old.

Jerzy Turonek, Polish-Belarusian historian, Died at 89

Jerzy Turonek was born Jury Turonak on April 26, 1929, in Dukszty and died on January 2, 2019.

He was a Polish-Belarusian historian.

Turonek was born into the family of West Belarusian political activist Bronisław Turonek in the Second Polish Republic's Wilno Voivodeship.

Following World War II he attended Higher School for Planning and Statistics in Warsaw in 1952.

He later worked for the Polish foreign trade chamber where Turonek was analyzing the international chemicals market and worked at the European economic commission in Geneva.

During the 1960s, he started researched the Belarusian national movement of the early 20th century, Polish-Belarusian relations in the 20th century, and the history of the Roman Catholic Church.

Turonek became Doctor of HistoryIn 1986.

He was the writer of the monograph Białoruś pod okupacją niemiecką (Belarus under the German occupation) published in 1993 by Książka i Wiedza.

There were copies of his monograph shipped to Belarus for distribution were confiscated by the Belarussian security service KDB.

Jerzy Turonek passed away at 89 years old.

Friday 4 January 2019

Sayed Ashraful Islam, Bangladeshi politician, Died at 67

Sayed Ashraful Islam was born in 1952, in Mymensingh, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan and died on January 3, 2019.

He was a Bangladeshi politician.

He served in the Awami League.

Sayed Ashraful Islam served as a member of parliament and Minister of Public Administration of the Government of Bangladesh.

For a short time, he was The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development.

Islam was diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer, in November 2018.

Sayed Ashraful Islam passed away at 67 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Moffatt Burriss, American politician, Died at 99

Thomas Moffatt Burriss was born on September 22, 1919, in Anderson, South Carolina and died on January 4, 2019.

He was an American businessman and politician representing the state of South Carolina.

He earned his bachelor's degree from the Clemson University.

Burriss served in the South Carolina House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party from 1977 to 1992, representing Richland County, South Carolina.

Burriss was a general contractor, and also a veteran of World War II.

He was interviewed by Fox News where he explained how during World War II in 2017, at only 24 years old, he successfully tricked an entire German Panzer Corps to surrender to him, under the duress that there was a brigade of tanks and paratroopers behind him ready to attack.

Moffatt Burriss passed away at 99 years old.

Hamza Abdullahi, Nigerian politician, Died at 73

Air Vice Marshal Hamza Abdullahi was born on March 2, 1945, in Hadejia, Jigawa State and died January 3, 2019.

He was Governor of Kano State in Nigeria from January 1984 to August 1985 while in the military regime of General Muhammadu Buhari.

When General Ibrahim Babangida came to power, Abdullahi was appointed Minister of Works and Housing, and later Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.

Hamza Abdullahi attended the Nigeria Air Force Tactical Training Wing, Kaduna in 1964.

Hamza Abdullahi entered the Aircraft Technical Officer’s Course in West Germany (1964–1966) and in 1974 studied at the Royal Military Training Centre in Chichester, England.

He was promoted air vice-marshal in October 1988 and retired from the Nigerian Air Force two months later.

Hamza Abdullahi passed away at 73 years old.

Thursday 3 January 2019

Peter Kelly, Irish politician, Died at 74

Peter Kelly was born on August 17, 1944 and died on January 2, 2019.

He was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician.

From 2002 to 2011, Peter Kelly was a Teachta Dála (TD). 

Before a funeral director and publican, Kelly was first elected to Dáil Éireann for the Longford–Roscommon constituency at the 2002 general election.

Peter Kelly was re-elected at the 2007 general election for the new Longford–Westmeath constituency.

Kelly was a member of Longford County Council from 1985 to 2003, and also previously served on Longford Town Council.

Kelly lost his seat at the 2011 general election.

Peter Kelly passed away at 74 years old.

Bob Hanner, American politician, Died at 73

Bob Hanner was born on April 19, 1945 and died on January 2, 2019.

He was an American politician and businessman.

Hanner was an individual from the Georgia House of Representatives from 1974 to 2013.

Hanner was an individual from the Republican party.

He was a Democrat; he at that point exchanged political gatherings and joined the Republicans in 2010.

He was conceived in Sumter County, Georgia.

Hanner served in the United States Coast Guard in 1967 and 1968 in South Vietnam.

He went to the Gordon Military College and to the Georgia Southwestern State University.

Hanner was engaged with the protection business and domain arranging.

He was a rancher. Hanner dwelled in Parrott, Georgia.

Bob Hanner passed away at 73 years old.

Wednesday 2 January 2019

Gennaro Papa, Italian politician, Died at 93

Gennaro Papa died on December 31, 2018.

He was an Italian politician.

He served as a Deputy from 1961 to 1963 and from 1968 to 1976.

Gennaro Papa passed away at 93 years old.