1628) James A. Reed

James Alexander Reed (1861 – 1944). American Democratic Party politician from Missouri.

Reed served as a city councilor of Kansas City from 1897 to 1898 and as prosecutor of Jackson County from 1898 to 1900. He unsuccessfully prosecuted Jesse E. James, son of the bandit Jesse James, for train robbery in 1899. He was elected Kansas City mayor from 1900 to 1904.

In 1910, he was elected to the US Senate from Missouri as a Democrat. He served in the Senate for three terms, from 1911 to 1929, when he decided to retire. Unlike many members of his party, he opposed the League of Nations. He sought and failed to receive the Democratic nomination for president. He served as chairman of the Committee on Weights and Measures from 1917 to 1921.

One of his biggest contributions to the State of Missouri came in 1913 when as a member of the Senate Banking Committee, he changed his vote to break a deadlock to pass the Federal Reserve Act, which resulted in Missouri getting 2 of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks (in St. Louis and Kansas City). Missouri is the only state with multiple headquarters of the Federal Reserve. Reed was very involved in the Senate Banking Committee's work to improve the Federal Reserve Act, including amendments to strengthen the power and independence of the Federal Reserve Board. President Wilson acknowledged the value of Reed's contributions in a letter sent to him while the bill was pending in committee.

 

- "In the spring of my senior year a little one-room law office sprang up among the sand burrs opposite the college to house a tall virile, red-headed young attorney we knew as “Jim” Reed... Soon he removed to Kansas City and eventually became for eighteen years United States senator from Missouri." http://digamoo.free.fr/ross1936.pdf

 

 

1627) Arthur Harrison “Red” Motley

Arthur Harrison “Red” Motley (1900-1984). American salesman and publisher.

He began his business carreer with an advertising position with Crowell-Collier Publishers in 1928, moved on to become the Detroit Manager in 1935, and then in 1941 he became publisher of American Magazine.

 His success at American Magazine led him to become the president of Parade Magazine (1946–76), where he revived the business by following the recipe for success he developed at American. In 1946 Parade was 5 years old, losing money, and had a circulation of about 2.1 million. When he retired, it was distributed by 116 newspapers, and had a circulation of about 21 million.

He raised millions of dollars for his favorite causes, including the Desert Hospital Foundation in Palm Springs, the Palm Spring Boy’s Club, United Way and his alma mater, University of Minnesota. He was also a hardworking member of Alcoholics Anonymous.

He is the namesake of the Arthur Motley Exemplary Teaching Award at the University of Minnesota. This award recognizes faculty who exemplify the highest standards of teaching and scholarship and who have enhanced the lives of the University’s Liberal Arts students. Red received the University of Minnesota’s highest honor, the Regents Award, and was a charter member of the University of Minnesota Foundation.

He was an important member of the Zeta Psi collegiate fraternity.

In 1985, he was Inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame.

His motto was “Nothing Happens Until Somebody Sells Something.” 

 

- "Red, who earned his nickname for his thatch of flaming red hair..." https://zetapsi.org/phi-alpha.../arthur-harrison-red-motley/

 

 

1626) Van Heflin

Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr. (1908 – 1971). American theatre, radio, and film actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man. Heflin won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Johnny Eager (1942). He also had memorable roles in Westerns such as Shane (1953), 3:10 to Yuma (1957), and Gunman's Walk (1958).

Heflin was the grandfather of actor Ben O'Brien and actress Eleanor O'Brien. He was also the uncle of Marta Heflin and Mady Kaplan, both actresses, and director Jonathan Kaplan. 

 

- "If you prefer your leading men to be conventionally handsome and “by-the numbers” actors, then Heflin, with his unruly red hair and restless protruding eyes, probably won’t appeal." https://filmstruck.tumblr.com/.../fall-in-love-with-van...

 

 

1625) Clive Sinclair

Sir Clive Sinclair (July 1940 - September 2021). English inventor. Perhaps most famous for the much-loved Sinclair Spectrum home computer. He was also an early pioneer of electric vehicles with his Sinclair C5.

After spending several years as assistant editor of Instrument Practice, Sinclair founded Sinclair Radionics Ltd in 1961. He produced the world's first slimline electronic pocket calculator (the Sinclair Executive) in 1972. Sinclair then moved into the production of home computers in 1980 with Sinclair Research Ltd, producing the Sinclair ZX80 (the UK's first mass-market home computer for less than £100) and in the early 1980s, the ZX81, ZX Spectrum and the Sinclair QL. Sinclair Research is widely recognised for its importance in the early days of the British and European home computer industry, as well as helping to give rise to the British video game industry.
Sinclair also had several commercial failures, including the Sinclair Radionics Black Watch wristwatch, the Sinclair Vehicles C5 battery electric vehicle, and the Sinclair Research TV80 flatscreen CRT handheld television set. The failure of the C5, along with a weakened computer market, forced Sinclair to sell most of his companies by 1986. Through 2010, Sinclair concentrated on personal transport, including the A-bike, a folding bicycle for commuters which was small enough to fit in a handbag. He also developed the Sinclair X-1, a revised version of the C5 electric vehicle, which never made it to the market.
Sinclair was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 1983 Birthday Honours for his contributions to the personal computer industry in the UK.

1624) Peter Beneson

Peter Benenson (born Peter James Henry Solomon; 1921 – 2005). British barrister, human rights activist and the co-founder, in 1961, of the human rights group Amnesty International along with Seàn MacBride.

Benenson was born in London to a large Jewish family, the only son of British-born Harold Solomon and Russian-born Flora Benenson. His father, an army officer, died from a long-term injury when Benenson was nine, and he was privately tutored by W. H. Auden before attending Eton College. He took his mother's maiden name of Benenson acceding to his dying grandfather’s wishes, the Russian financier Grigori Benenson (1860–1939).

 

- "He was also inordinately modest (rejecting honours, save for belatedly accepting an honorary fellowship of his Oxford college, Balliol), as well as engagingly eccentric, with a twinkle in his eye and a crop of red hair." https://www.theguardian.com/.../dec/04/features.magazine97

 

 

1623) Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux, (1090 – 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard. Abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, and major leader in the reformation of the Benedictine Order through the nascent Cistercian Order.

He was sent to found Clairvaux Abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the Val d'Absinthe, about 15 kilometres (9 mi) southeast of Bar-sur-Aube. In the year 1128, Bernard attended the Council of Troyes, at which he traced the outlines of the Rule of the Knights Templar, which soon became an ideal of Christian nobility.

Bernard was canonized just 21 years after his death by Pope Alexander III. In 1830 Pope Pius VIII declared him a Doctor of the Church.

 

- "His body was so wasted and worn away, that he seemed to be nothing but skin and bones; his face was ruddie, his hair and beard red, and in his old age white, of a middle stature, rather tall then low." https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VO1BAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1...

 

San Bernardo by Juan Correa de Vivar

 

1622) Pamela Ann Davy

Pamela Ann Davy (1933 – 2018). Australian actress, best known for her roles on British television during the 1960s, such as Doctor Who, The Avengers, No Hiding Place, The Saint and The First Churchills.

After graduating from RADA in 1960, and after early repertory experience, she appeared in many popular TV shows of the day. She married racing car driver Geoffrey Lyndon Archer in 1971, and lived latterly in suburban Hobart, Tasmania, Australia until her death.

 

- "There are other similarities: both are 28, both have red hair, and both wear the trouser suits..." https://www.newspapers.com/.../the-sydney.../16660041/

 

- "Hair color: Red." https://www.famousfix.com/topic/pamela-ann-davy...