Political Frailty

[drunkasaskunk 194]

 

MSP to stand down in 2026 due to cancer diagnosis

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gp50jrvnwo

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

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.

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

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.

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

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.

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

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!).

 

[Thatcher 2,418]

Jodi Rell, former Governor of Connecticut (2004-2011), has died aged 78.

[Sean 6,330]

One political name worthy of being on the radar is the outgoing West Virginia Governor who has just been elected Senator Jim Justice.Justice turns 74 next year and was said to weigh 368 lbs standing at 6 foot 8 in 2019 giving him a BMI of 40.He has been hospitalised before and doesn't stand for very long during speeches often delivering the majority of them sitting down.

[The Old Crem 3,608]

1 hour ago, Sean said:

One political name worthy of being on the radar is the outgoing West Virginia Governor who has just been elected Senator Jim Justice.Justice turns 74 next year and was said to weigh 368 lbs standing at 6 foot 8 in 2019 giving him a BMI of 40.He has been hospitalised before and doesn't stand for very long during speeches often delivering the majority of them sitting down.

He sums up the USA senate. Newly elected despite being well past retirement age and already in health decline. 

[Death Impends 7,979]

I like the name "Jim Justice"; it looks like a store brand GI Joe.

[prussianblue 1,038]

Justice seems to be an old school paternalistic oligarch, a tax-avoiding, safety code-violating owner of mines, farms and a luxury hotel, but who seems about as moderate as a contemporary Republican is allowed to be under the Trump regime.

 

He also has a bulldog called Babydog, who weighs 60lb, likes chicken nuggets, has been used to promote covid vaccination uptake, and has had a waterfall named after her.

[Comped 529]

6 hours ago, prussianblue said:

He also has a bulldog called Babydog, who weighs 60lb, likes chicken nuggets, has been used to promote covid vaccination uptake, and has had a waterfall named after her.

Sounds like a good dog. Although I'm curious if the US government recognizes the waterfall name...

[Sean 6,330]

10 hours ago, prussianblue said:

Justice seems to be an old school paternalistic oligarch, a tax-avoiding, safety code-violating owner of mines, farms and a luxury hotel, but who seems about as moderate as a contemporary Republican is allowed to be under the Trump regime.

 

He also has a bulldog called Babydog, who weighs 60lb, likes chicken nuggets, has been used to promote covid vaccination uptake, and has had a waterfall named after her.

Definitely looks like her owner.

[Summer in Transylvania 2,188]

On 18/06/2024 at 12:58, Spade_Cooley said:

Chuwit Kamolvisit now receiving palliative care according to Thai media.

Chuwit Kamolvisit de...cides to return to Thailand.

 

Obviously not well, but given that he has been in hospice for nearly six months, and has outlasted his cancer prognosis by eight, he's not looking as awful as expected.

[Deathrace 1,171]

Former Labour and SDP MP John Cartwright has died aged 90 https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/john-cartwright-obituary-mp-who-abandoned-the-loony-left-for-the-sdp-lrwg9q883

[arghton 6,755]

On 04/11/2011 at 22:56, DevonDeathTrip said:

Serge Vohor, who has served as Vanuatu's Prime Minister on four occasions, has been airlifted to Australia for urgent medical treatment.

Only 13 years later, Serge Vohor, five-time Prime Minister of Vanuatu is being reported dead at 69.

 

Worth noting again that the founding President of the country (Ati George Sokomanu) is still alive and will turn 88 in January.

[Clorox Bleachman 2,436]

14 minutes ago, arghton said:

Only 13 years later, Serge Vohor, five-time Prime Minister of Vanuatu is being reported dead at 69.

Five-time prime minister, but spent less time in office than Gordon Brown. I didn't know Vanuatu had so many political scandals.

[drol 11,957]

Mayor of Belo Horizonte Fuad Noman (wiki) hospitalised, just a month after announcing he beat non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

[livingbygrace 354]

 

Georgia's Department of Labor Commissioner and part of the State Senate Bruce Thompson dies.  He had Pancreatic Cancer

https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/11/25/georgia-labor-commissioner-dead-59-department-says/

[Spade_Cooley 9,537]

15 hours ago, livingbygrace said:

 

Georgia's Department of Labor Commissioner and part of the State Senate Bruce Thompson dies.  He had Pancreatic Cancer

https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/11/25/georgia-labor-commissioner-dead-59-department-says/

 

Not to compedbump, but this guy would have been the ultimate "picked by 6 DDP teams all in the top 10" name if he'd made it to the 2025 starting line.

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

Lord Lyndon Harrison (wiki) dead at 77.

Labour MEP (1989–1999) and member of the House of Lords (1999–2022).

[The Old Crem 3,608]

New Zealand’s former Deputy Opposition Leader and Deputy Leader of the New Zealand National Party,  Nikki Kaye, has passed away at 44 after battling breast cancer. She served as the MP for Auckland Central from 2008–2020.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/534834/former-national-minister-nikki-kaye-dies-aged-44

[Lafaucheuse 4,051]

On 02/08/2022 at 22:10, arghton said:

André Lajoinie (1929) 1988 Presidential candidate of the Communist Party.

André Lajoinie dead at 94. +16 for my french list.

[The Old Crem 3,608]

Gemma Hussey, former Irish government minister has died aged 86. https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/1126/1483148-gemma-hussey/

[drol 11,957]

On 17/09/2023 at 16:38, drol said:

Quite difficult to track Libyan heads of state/government:

 

1)Abdessalam Jalloud (1944): living in Italy, appeared in 2021, rumoured dead of COVID in April 2020.

2)Jadallah Azzuz al-Talhi (1939): profiled here in 2018. Can't find anything recent.

3)Muhammad az-Zaruq Rajab (1940): profiled by the site above in 2019. Some recent pic on Facebook but don't know when they were taken.

4)Muhammad az-Zanati (1937): covered in September 2022.

5)Mohammed Ali Salim (1935): has this guy ever existed? Head of state for one day in 2012, completely disappeared later.  @arghton, @Ulitzer95, @Gisooo?

Mohammed Ali Salim died in 2022.

[Drewsky1211 4,755]

On 27/10/2022 at 08:09, arghton said:

*snip*

 

Australia has a lot of elderly politicians. Bill Grayden is 102, Elisabeth Kirkby is 101, Wylie Gibbs is 100, Tom Hughes and Bill Nankivell are 99, former Governor of South Australia Eric Neal is 98, Ron Elstob is 97, Hugh Hiscutt and former President of the Senate Doug McClelland are 96 (not sure if Neville Harper is alive, if he is, he's also 96), Bruce Eastick, Bob Ellicott and others are 95.

 

Tom Hughes dead at 101.