drunkasaskunk 194 Posted Saturday at 14:16 MSP to stand down in 2026 due to cancer diagnosis https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gp50jrvnwo 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,569 Posted Saturday at 14:27 9 minutes ago, drunkasaskunk said: MSP to stand down in 2026 due to cancer diagnosis https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gp50jrvnwo Ruth Maguire, 48, SNP MSP for Cunninghame South. Cervical cancer. First diagnosed in May 2021, but cancer has since returned. Save others the click @drunkasaskunk. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,569 Posted Monday at 10:04 On 21/09/2022 at 17:56, Ulitzer95 said: Would be interested to see a list of the oldest U.S. ambassadors. Oldest ones I'm aware of (with wiki pages): Joan M. Clark (wiki) b. Mar 1922 – Malta Geri M. Joseph (wiki) b. Jun 1923 – The Netherlands Dave Bolen (wiki) b. Dec 1923 – East Germany, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana (also an Olympic track and field athlete) Samuel Rhea Gammon III (wiki) b. Jan 1924 – Mauritius J. William Middendorf (wiki) b. Sep 1924 – The Netherlands, Organization of U.S. States, European Union (also U.S. Secretary to the Navy) Frank J. Shakespeare (wiki) b. Apr 1925 – Portugal, The Holy See Theodore R. Britton Jr. (wiki) b. Oct 1925 – Grenada, Barbados Donald M. Blinken (wiki) b. Nov 1925 – Hungary Horace Dawson (wiki) b. Jan 1926 – Botswana Ignacio E. Lozano Jr. (wiki) b. Jan 1927 – El Salvador Bruce Gelb (wiki) b. Feb 1927 – Belgium Frederick Vreeland (wiki) b. Jun 1927 – Morocco Glen Holden Sr. (wiki) b. Jul 1927 – Jamaica John R. Davis Jr. (wiki) b. Jul 1927 – Poland, Romania Allen C. Davis b. Aug 1927 – Guinea Francis Terry McNamara (wiki) b. Nov 1927 – Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde Malcolm R. Barnebey (wiki) b. Nov 1927 – Belize Donald P. Gregg (wiki) b. Dec 1927 – South Korea James T. Laney (wiki) b. Dec 1927 – South Korea Paul C. Lambert (wiki) b. Mar 1928 – Ecuador Herman W. Nickel (wiki) b. Oct 1928 – South Africa Nicholas A. Veliotes (wiki) b. Oct 1928 – Jordan, Egypt Cynthia Shepard Perry (wiki) b. Nov 1928 – Sierra Leone, Burundi Robert Sherwood Dillon (wiki) b. Jan 1929 – Lebanon William C. Harrop (wiki) b. Feb 1929 – Guinea-Conakry, Kenya, Seychelles, Congo-Kinshasa, Israel Edward Peck (wiki) b. Mar 1929 – Mauritania Raymond L. Garthoff (wiki) b. Mar 1929 – Bulgaria Jane Abell Coon (wiki) b. May 1929 – Bangladesh William Luers (wiki) b. May 1929 – Venezuela, Czechoslovakia Alfred H. Moses (wiki) b. Jul 1929 – Romania Richard W. Murphy (wiki) b. Jul 1929 – Mauritania, Syria, Philippines, Saudi Arabia Joseph Bernard Gildenhorn (wiki) b. Sep 1929 – Switzerland and Liechtenstein Jack F. Matlock Jr. (wiki) b. Oct 1929 – Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia James Goodby (wiki) b. Dec 1929 – Finland Richard Llewellyn Williams (wiki) b. Dec 1929 – Mongolia Samuel Rhea Gammon III (wiki), one of just 3 centenarian U.S. ambassadors, dead at 100. Joan M. Clark (b. 1922) is now the last surviving ambassador to have served under Jimmy Carter who is older than him. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,569 Posted 9 hours ago Mark Flynn (wiki), SNP leader of Dundee City Council (and father of SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn), diagnosed with cancer. Only took over as leader in September. 63 next year... same age as Janey Godley funnily enough. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,569 Posted 1 hour ago Facebook post reporting the death of Manfred Ohrenstein (wiki), aged 99. Democratic Member of the New York State Senate from 1961 to 1994, and Minority Leader from 1975 to 1994 (hell of a long tenure!). 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
